17 May
2005
17 May
'05
5:51 p.m.
On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 12:42AM -0400, LinuxMedia spake thus:
I start with drums quite a lot. Partly, I suppose it's because I'm
influenced by, and aiming at, something different. Rhythm and bass,
for me, are at least as important as melody and vocals.
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"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
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That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
>>>
Herky-Jerk (OGG audio file, 3.4MB)
>>> http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk.ogg
> I like that. Can I request a beat, though?
Drums are a real weak spot with me. I have a good
sense
of rhythm and I always wanted to be a drummer instead
of a keyboard player (but my mom and dad forced me to
take piano lessons). I love Hydrogen but I always
feel that if I were to try to add a drum part it would
sound ultra-cheesy and unrealistic.
When I actually have everything set up the way I want it and get ready
to make music, I will probly eventually look into electric drum pads (or
whatever you call them). I'm assuming they are all midi. Would midiable
drum pads help to make it more musical for you (assuming one could use
the drum pads to trigger sounds via midi and a linux sequence/sampler)?
On the other hand, I feel that if I were to START
with
a drum part, it's metronomic nature would restrict or
prevent more fluid, expressive tempos for the rest of
the parts of the music.
When I think of "starting with drums", I think of it as an exception to
the rule, possibly as a way to inspire me to write new sounding music
(instead of my usual approach of writing by playing my main instrument
and accompanying it with my singing *then* adding drums). This way,
starting with drums would actually be a creative thing to make things
fresh and different. And if the Electric Drum Pads helped open up
creativity, then maybe this approach may actually make things more
creative for you. In a live band
(I was a professional
musician for about a dozen years), the drummer and ensemble
are all in "psychological sync" in a way, so that the tempo
fluctuations sound "tight" and realistic, yet human and
variable. That seems hard to achieve using software percussion
Yeah... nothing beats a group of musicans that click and all adding
their personal sound to one complete song. Just being with people and
playing can inspire more creativity.
Just a few thoughts.
Rocco