monthly drum challenge?

[Minerman]

Ok, this is one I liked and wanted to have another go at and its pretty straight forward. BPM is 135, 4/4, etc.

Cool dude, I wasn't at home last night & had wondered if you were gonna throw something up...Next one I'll put one of my shitty songs up...Thanks man!!!


So, June 17 sound about right for the cutoff/deadline??? Lemme know...

[liv_rong]

So, June 17 sound about right for the cutoff/deadline??? Lemme know...

Yeah, whatever works for you.

[liv_rong]

Have you messed with this at all Minerman?

[Minerman]

Have you messed with this at all Minerman?

Yeah dude, I've got my basic idea down, & I'm smoothing out the rough spots in my playing...Mostly what I need to work on are fills/accents, I'm trying to not sound boring/predictable, but my fill/accent vocabulary ain't what it needs to be......yet...

[Minerman]

Have you messed with this at all Minerman?

I've got this figured out, just need smoothing things out, but it's getting there...


Is this one of your songs Liv??? It's pretty cool IMO...Good playing & tone (I like the bass tone on this too dude)...

[liv_rong]

I've got this figured out, just need smoothing things out, but it's getting there...

Is this one of your songs Liv??? It's pretty cool IMO...Good playing & tone (I like the bass tone on this too dude)...

No, not mine. I think about half of the stuff we used at the other site was just other peoples music, meaning no ones music from the site. This one someone found while searching the internet for drumless tracks. Its a pretty cool song, good tones all around.

[JD01]

Ok, this is one I liked and wanted to have another go at and its pretty straight forward. BPM is 135, 4/4, etc.

I'm actually looking forward to hearing the outcome of this as I can hear pretty cool drum parts in my head for it my head!

[Greg_L]

I will take part in one of these one day. After this weekend I have no drumming gigs for a few months, so I'll be all set up again.

[Minerman]

I will take part in one of these one day. After this weekend I have no drumming gigs for a few months, so I'll be all set up again.

↑ This will be a big deal for me dude, even more so if you, Liv & Rami all participated...I'd have some great ideas from some damn good drummers to steal ideas/beats/fills from...

I gotta admit, I knew you & Rami were good drummers, but Liv continues to surprise me with his talent behind the kit, he's a solid player...

I've actually slacked off playing for 4-5 hours a day, but I'm gonna push myself this week to smooth the parts out in this one where I wanna be...This is actually kinda tough for me because it's sorta slow...I'm finding staying in time on a slower song like this is more of a challenge that a fast song...

[Greg_L]

I will take part in one of these one day. After this weekend I have no drumming gigs for a few months, so I'll be all set up again.

↑ This will be a big deal for me dude, even more so if you, Liv & Rami all participated...I'd have some great ideas from some damn good drummers to steal ideas/beats/fills from...

I gotta admit, I knew you & Rami were good drummers, but Liv continues to surprise me with his talent behind the kit, he's a solid player...

I've actually slacked off playing for 4-5 hours a day, but I'm gonna push myself this week to smooth the parts out in this one where I wanna be...This is actually kinda tough for me because it's sorta slow...I'm finding staying in time on a slower song like this is more of a challenge that a fast song...

Dude Liv is a great drummer. I can't do any of that fancy accent shit that he does. Rami too, obviously. Rami is an amazing drummer. Both of those guys can teach you way more than I could. They do things that I don't even understand.

[Minerman]

Dude Liv is a great drummer. I can't do any of that fancy accent shit that he does.

Yes sir, I agree 100%, I didn't realize this until this forum started up...He definitely has skills...Impressive to say the least...

Rami too, obviously. Rami is an amazing drummer.

I've known Rami is a kick-ass drummer for a long time, it's just blatantly obvious if you listen to anything he's recorded...

Both of those guys can teach you way more than I could. They do things that I don't even understand.

Don't sell yourself short dude, while I love the finesse & complicated things that both Liv & Rami are more than capable of playing, I like your style too...To me, it's like you took Henry Rollins' personality & turned it into a style of drumming...No holds barred & no fuckin' apology if anyone doesn't like it, too fuckin' bad...I'm doing what I do & if you don't like it, then fuck you...

[Minerman]

I'm actually looking forward to hearing the outcome of this as I can hear pretty cool drum parts in my head for it my head!

You need to participate in this too dude, I'm sure nobody would care that you programmed the drums since you don't have a kit...You could learn to use those scripts I uploaded to make programming faster...

The midi loops/fills you already have are a great resource to learn from dude, you can open 'em in the midi editor/piano roll & see what/where the hits are along with hearing 'em...

[JD01]

I'm actually looking forward to hearing the outcome of this as I can hear pretty cool drum parts in my head for it my head!

You need to participate in this too dude, I'm sure nobody would care that you programmed the drums since you don't have a kit...You could learn to use those scripts I uploaded to make programming faster...

The midi loops/fills you already have are a great resource to learn from dude, you can open 'em in the midi editor/piano roll & see what/where the hits are along with hearing 'em...

Those fucking scripts are still taunting me! I get so little time at home to actually record, when i'm there I want to crack on!

I know it would make things quicker if I could take the time to work out how to do it.

[Minerman]

Those fucking scripts are still taunting me! I get so little time at home to actually record, when i'm there I want to crack on!

I know it would make things quicker if I could take the time to work out how to do it.

Once you get them set up, there's really nothing to 'em dude...The hardest part is setting them up as a toolbar button...I almost guarantee if you ever used 'em, you'd never do without 'em again...Those things make editing midi drums 10x faster/easier...

It's kinda funny now, I spent all those years editing midi drums, but now I'm playing 'em, & it's a no-no for me to edit 'em...Of course I do open the piano roll to see where I've fucked up & what I need to work on, but I haven't edited anything in months now...

[liv_rong]

Aw shucks thanks guys! Someone recently explained drumming in a way I never thought of before, he said it's kind of like skateboarding where everyone has their tricks that hey can pull off and others can't. The reverse is also true. Anyways, I'm just an average dude sloppily cranking my way through songs lol.

[Greg_L]

I watch drummers a lot when I'm seeing live bands or playing live myself with other bands. I can say with confidence that I have two very important things going in my favor for my kind of music:
1) My meter. I'm pretty steady. I see drummers wavering all over the place, speeding up fills, dragging verses. I hate it. You can set a watch to my drumming. When I hear, or worse, play with a drummer that wanders around, I want to kill him.
2) Stamina. This one's pretty important. I don't play like thrash metal fast, but fast punk rock drumming for long periods of time while maintaining my meter is no problem for me. It makes drumming in my normal buttrock band pretty damn easy. Mid-tempo rock and roll is like cruise control for me. I'm just as fresh at the end of a set as I am at the beginning. I do not ever get gassed.

So that's about it. I'm better than most drummers I see at those two things. Besides those areas, regular drummers stomp all over me.

[Minerman]

Just a heads up for the guys participating in the Drum Challenge this month, today's the deadline...

I'm doing some last minute practicing/smoothing out, but I'll post my track later this evening...

[Minerman]

Ok dudes, here's what I came up with for this month's challenge...My playing is pretty sloppy, but I didn't edit any of the midi afterward, what you hear is what I banged out on the e-kit...

I know there are some obvious things I need to work on like playing in time , but any suggestions are more than welcome...Please remember to explain this to me like you would a 4 year old kid...

[Greg_L]

Ok dudes, here's what I came up with for this month's challenge...My playing is pretty sloppy, but I didn't edit any of the midi afterward, what you hear is what I banged out on the e-kit...

I know there are some obvious things I need to work on like playing in time , but any suggestions are more than welcome...Please remember to explain this to me like you would a 4 year old kid...

Pretty solid miner. Not too bad at all.

I don't have much to suggest. It's pretty appropriate to me. Anything more would be drum wankery that I'm just not fond of anyway. I think you could keep working on going in and coming out of your fills. More fluidity. You kind of come up on a fill, stop, do the fill, stop, and then start drumming again. Besides throwing you off a little, it just sounds choppy. But overall you did great.

[Minerman]

Pretty solid miner. Not too bad at all.

I don't have much to suggest. It's pretty appropriate to me. Anything more would be drum wankery that I'm just not fond of anyway. I think you could keep working on going in and coming out of your fills. More fluidity. You kind of come up on a fill, stop, do the fill, stop, and then start drumming again. Besides throwing you off a little, it just sounds choppy. But overall you did great.

Thanks dude, I had this song all planned out playing-wise, but threw some different things in at the last minute...You can tell because of the sloppiness...

Going to/from a fill is a weak spot for me, so I definitely need some practice there...Not sure what I'm doing wrong or could do different, but as long as I'm bangin' on the hi-hat/ride, everything sounds fine, but when I go into a fill, to me, it just sounds empty & dead...

I personally felt this song needs the choppy beat thing, (I'm not up to speed on drum terminology & probably never will be... FWIW I also refer this kinda drum beat as a "stutterstep") but it's something I need to practice on...This is why I mentioned the song a couple days ago being a challenge to stay in time with for me...

I think it'd be great if we had more people participating, but I understand not everybody has all day everyday like I do...I'd love to hear what actual drummers (like *cough cough* you & Rami.. *cough cough*) might've done differently than I would...Maybe on the next go-round some of you guys will participate...

Thanks again dude...

Oh yeah, while I'm at it, whaddya think of the drum sounds on this???