Recently I had to program a John Bonham 'style' drum track. I wanted to make it so that hearing it instantly conjured up thoughts of John Bonham but without being any one of his particular grooves ie not trying to rip him off totally. I decided I wanted a groove similar to Fool In The
We are all so used to using loops now in music that we don't really think about where they actually come from. By that, I don't mean who records them and stuff like that (generally musicians like you and me), more like why we have got used to using short repeating sections of music to
Zoom Update It's always nice when companies listen to criticism. You may remember a few months back when we went into our first lockdown that I did a roundup of what was available to us drummers who wanted to either teach online or be taught online. At the time, I said that Zoom was the
A 200gb Micro SD card inside its adapter, in the SD slot of my MacBook If there's one thing I like about having access to thousands and thousands of really, really good drum sounds is the fact that if I feel like track needs the sound of a 1974 Ludwig Black Beauty with
OK, I'm surprised I hadn't covered this, but it appears I haven't, and it is VERY important. If you use ANY electronic or mechanical gear, you experience latency. Latency is the time it takes for something that you are using (a car, a toaster, a clever bit of electronic drum gear) to react to you
Online Teaching Part 2 All ready for another lesson I thought this month I'd follow on from last months look at quickly getting an online teaching situation up and running. Hopefully the world has calmed down a little since then, and we have all got a little more used to our situation. I,
Since I wrote my last article, the world has become a very different place. As the social isolation rules were bought in around the planet, drummers everywhere realised that if they wanted to carry on teaching or having lessons, they had to get their online lesson setup sorted out. While this might, on the surface,
An example of my template in action - triggering ezDrummer 2, but also converting the midi from a Yamaha Multi 12 into a correctly written score in real time. Since I started using edrums I have also taught drums, and I've also had some very, very good teachers myself (luckily). And while I've
Acoustic? Or electronic with real cymbals? If you ask 100 drummers what they like about using either electronic kits or VST drum plug-ins, they will tell you that they love the variety of drum sounds, the ability to play the sounds of rare of vintage drums and all that sort of stuff. If
So we left off last time talking about machine-gunning. This is the effect you get when you play a pad multiple time (like in a fill) on an electronic kit, at about the same velocity, and the sound (lets assume its a snare drum sounds) sounds really jittery, jumpy and un-realistic.. and almost like a
