On Tue, 17 May, 2005 at 12:42AM -0400, LinuxMedia spake thus: > >>>> 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. 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. > > 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 > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
