1 Minute Song Challenge
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Re: 1 Minute Song Challenge
I found for my noobness that playing over a drum beat helped a lot, trying to sync up drums to a track thats outta time was a bit pants What I did on my second clip was create one of the default drum tracks in garageband and stretched it out for a minute and then play over the top trying to get something that worked in with it, worked much better for me as I don't know shit about drumming
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Re: 1 Minute Song Challenge
That sounds like a better approach. I was recording with a mix of headphones for guitar and laptop speakers for the drums or loop playback. The other difficulty I encountered was that I realised I have utterly no idea how to play over chords, whether it be layering notes over it or soloing or whatever.jeremyb wrote:I found for my noobness that playing over a drum beat helped a lot, trying to sync up drums to a track thats outta time was a bit pants What I did on my second clip was create one of the default drum tracks in garageband and stretched it out for a minute and then play over the top trying to get something that worked in with it, worked much better for me as I don't know shit about drumming
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You using the HD500? cause you can set that as your audio output and then the drum tracks will come thru your headphones HA! Yep, know the feeling, this trying to make music thing gives you an appreciation of how hard it actually is, both technically and creatively!!hamo wrote:That sounds like a better approach. I was recording with a mix of headphones for guitar and laptop speakers for the drums or loop playback. The other difficulty I encountered was that I realised I have utterly no idea how to play over chords, whether it be layering notes over it or soloing or whatever.jeremyb wrote:I found for my noobness that playing over a drum beat helped a lot, trying to sync up drums to a track thats outta time was a bit pants What I did on my second clip was create one of the default drum tracks in garageband and stretched it out for a minute and then play over the top trying to get something that worked in with it, worked much better for me as I don't know shit about drumming
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In my song above, I found the tempo I wanted to play at, and recorded a rough take to a click track. Then went and found a drum loop that fitted over my riff, by way of looping my riff, and trawling through ez drummer at the same time. It's partly a case of knowing the style and feel of drumming I want, and then listening to what feels right and has the right accents in the right places.
Once I find the drum loop I like, I drop it in to the track and then re-record the guitars over it. I find that while my timing with the click track is fine, it sounds more natural if I play to the drum loop. Unsure if that's because of the EZ drummer algorithms for making it sound more "natural" or what.
Once I find the drum loop I like, I drop it in to the track and then re-record the guitars over it. I find that while my timing with the click track is fine, it sounds more natural if I play to the drum loop. Unsure if that's because of the EZ drummer algorithms for making it sound more "natural" or what.
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Oh right, sweet.jeremyb wrote:You using the HD500? cause you can set that as your audio output and then the drum tracks will come thru your headphones HA! Yep, know the feeling, this trying to make music thing gives you an appreciation of how hard it actually is, both technically and creatively!!hamo wrote:That sounds like a better approach. I was recording with a mix of headphones for guitar and laptop speakers for the drums or loop playback. The other difficulty I encountered was that I realised I have utterly no idea how to play over chords, whether it be layering notes over it or soloing or whatever.jeremyb wrote:I found for my noobness that playing over a drum beat helped a lot, trying to sync up drums to a track thats outta time was a bit pants What I did on my second clip was create one of the default drum tracks in garageband and stretched it out for a minute and then play over the top trying to get something that worked in with it, worked much better for me as I don't know shit about drumming
Cool. Am I limited by using the Lite version of EZ Drummer? Will that stop me exporting to something like Reaper? Is that even how it works?Scooter13 wrote:In my song above, I found the tempo I wanted to play at, and recorded a rough take to a click track. Then went and found a drum loop that fitted over my riff, by way of looping my riff, and trawling through ez drummer at the same time. It's partly a case of knowing the style and feel of drumming I want, and then listening to what feels right and has the right accents in the right places.
Once I find the drum loop I like, I drop it in to the track and then re-record the guitars over it. I find that while my timing with the click track is fine, it sounds more natural if I play to the drum loop. Unsure if that's because of the EZ drummer algorithms for making it sound more "natural" or what.
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In reaper from memory you just add it to the plugins if it doesn't find it automatically and then you can just add a track and drag and drop the ezdrummer loops into it, heaps of good tutorials on youtube tho'
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Oh cool. Yeah, for some reason I always forget to look for a tutorial.jeremyb wrote:In reaper from memory you just add it to the plugins if it doesn't find it automatically and then you can just add a track and drag and drop the ezdrummer loops into it, heaps of good tutorials on youtube tho'
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Very nice Ben!
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yep very cool ... thats a long 1 minute thoughjeremyb wrote:Very nice Ben!
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No idea if this will work but here goes...my brain hurts
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Nice!!calling card wrote:No idea if this will work but here goes...my brain hurts
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Here's my go for now
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Sweet, it's a celebration of our diversity. What's your rig rundown?
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