On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:07:52AM +0100, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, 15 May, 2005 at 06:04PM -0600, Steve D spake thus: > > Herky-Jerk (OGG audio file, 3.4MB) > > http://www.xscd.com/pub/music/herky-jerk.ogg > > > > -Steve D, New Mexico US > > I like that. Can I request a beat, though? This is just the kind of > thing I like to bop my head to while I'm in the house. --- --- --- 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. 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. 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 tools (or maybe I just feel daunted without really looking into the problem and finding solutions). One of these days I need to just bite the bullet and really try to learn to create OK drum parts, OR, collaborate with someone on the Internet on a piece or pieces, using an exchange of MIDI and audio files. I really like the idea of musicians who are remote from each other (I live in a very rural region of eastern New Mexico, US) being able to work together via the Internet to create finished music tracks. Anyway, thanks for your comment James. ;-) Best wishes and happy music-making, -Steve D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson ----------------------------------------------------------------
