Live pad drumming demo- Funky Drummer/Breakbeat style

[exaltron]

Here is a demo I posted on youtube that demos my technique for creating a 60s/70s soul/funk style drumbeat using a midi pad. Includes screencast that details the drum hits used in impulse and how to configure for this technique. Would love to hear some feedback and happy to answer any questions!

[oddstep]

this is Marly Marl interviewing Clyde Stubblefield.
Check this out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy
It'll help you work up your skillz

[exaltron]

That's funny, I just watched that this morning. I wasn't even sure about that term "ghost note" when I made the video, I thought I might have confused that with something else, so I was glad to hear it from him.

He is definitely the master- mine is but a cheap imitation until I can afford to hire the man himself

[exaltron]

this is Marly Marl interviewing Clyde Stubblefield.
Check this out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy
It'll help you work up your skillz

PS, I think you meant to post this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xSXc1vy5I

[oddstep]

Sorry, maybe I'm just tired and gnarly. Clyde's got the gift with snare hat interplay.nice to see him just work through stuff.

[Khazul]

Confused - no midi pad or Live related stuff in this vid?

The guy is a great drummer tho

[oddstep]

Yeah, thats what I thought.... so I said so and then was told to watch the video again. So i did... left feeling, yeah great drummer, nice screen presence... no tips on getting that feel except practice drumming. Still no sure what communication i am not picking up on. Is ambiguity the new trolling?

[Khazul]

Funny thing - when I start drumming several years ago - I spent ages trying to nail down the funky drummer / amen break thing even if I couldnt play bugger all else

Thats still the case - I can do breaks/jungle/d&b beats but f*** all else

[oddstep]

[exaltron]

Funny thing - when I start drumming several years ago - I spent ages trying to nail down the funky drummer / amen break thing even if I couldnt play bugger all else

Thats still the case - I can do breaks/jungle/d&b beats but f*** all else

It's funny, when I started programming beats in '95 all I ever wanted to do was sound like one of those drummers, even more so when that first Photek EP came out. I don't know who that guy was (I heard he had a drummer come in and record which he then turned into loops), but he was definitely from that same nasty school of drumming. I just think it's hilarious that I've been able to get closer to that sound buy playing everything in one pass than I ever was by layering different patterns via midi.

BTW do you record drums a lot? Would love to hear what you're doing.

[Khazul]

Nothing special at all - I came to the conclusion my drumming was allways doomed to be crap (as the basics were crap) and that I should focus on keyboards, so selling off my kit as space and cash needed

About all I can do was bang out quite decent 4/8 bar breaks and jungle/d&b stuff from about 130-160bpm yet I cant even hold a decent roll together

I guess the other side that meant in the end I would use recorded stuff as a progression rather than as is becuase the midi was allways allways the all over the place timing wise compared the the audio (recording in Live) and quatrizing the midi the audio was too much of a pain and the audio was never quite tight enough, so I would just use it as the basis for programmed beats. Odd - my production head has allways been in house music, yet the drummer side was allways in breaks variations.

I guess just something about those kind of beats that got inside I guess. Similar thing with keyboards - I can bang out pretty good house piano riffs that alot of good piano players struggle with, yet I fail at the most simple normal stuff - something about the rhythms I guess - similar thing since I got trillian - discovered I can easily do funky electric basslines on a keyboard without even thinking about them, yet alot of basis stuff just wont happen - wierd!

[mothergarage]

Here is a demo I posted on youtube

dude, you posted the wrong link

guess you meant this

[swishniak]

for a second i thought this was a (very) funny joke.. midi, hahah.

[exaltron]

Here is a demo I posted on youtube

dude, you posted the wrong link

guess you meant this

My god I'm an idiot Thank you for pointing that out. I was trying to figure out why that second poster was referencing a video that I had just watched!! Get out of my head man And why was that other guy telling me to work on my skills? Was he trolling me?! Thanks to you everything makes sense again..

[oddstep]

Nah. I wasn't trolling you. I thought you were deliberately posting a link to Clyde Stubblefield as some sort of breaks tutorial... I thought this is the work of someone making some kind of lamo snide remark about sequencing and deserves a wikipedia reference. Your response was so sincere that I was just left baffled and I realised that I was just tired and intolerant. I am sorry for the hostility. Peace.