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Re: HuMaNiZiNg cold DRUM MACHINES
One of the albums that i still find amazing is Peter
Gabriels melting face and the security album.There
isnīt one single track where you hear a hi-hat or a
cymbal! this was of course after Peter came back from
africa.he was doing a lot of linn drum programing but
I also read somewhere that Jerry Mariotta looked at
Peter in awe as he told them to take all the hi-hats
and cymbals away before recording the album!
--- Jesse Ray Lucas <jlucas@neoprimitive.net> wrote:
> I write some pretty percussion intensive music that
> is all sequenced.
> Here's an eight bar MIDI file for a breakdown
> section in a tune I'm working
> on right now. Just thought I'd share an example
> rather than just talking
> about it.
>
> Mr. Walker mentioned a drummer's right hand being
> dominant over left, but I
> didn't catch anything about drummers' tendency to
> accent beats one and three
> on the "ride" instrument in a rock groove. I
> usually put about a
> ten-velocity difference in the hats, or ride, or
> crash or whatever is
> keeping the quarter note. The louder hits are on
> the kick and snare, the
> quieter ones in between. You don't really notice
> it, but I notice it when
> it's not there.
>
> Also, notice that I've kept my drummer to having two
> arms (for the most
> part, I think), so at the beginning when there are
> two cymbals being hit, he
> doesn't play a hi-hat under them. It's the little
> things...
>
> This is a swung groove, too, so examine where the
> offbeats are. Notice the
> ghost notes, stick drops, etc. Obviously, this is
> written to sound good on
> the drum kit I made for the song, but I listened to
> it on my Soundblaster's
> General MIDI soundset and I think the idea still
> gets across.
>
> http://www.neoprimitive.net/jlucas/tmp/drumsdemo.mid
>
> You may have to open this in your sequencer and tell
> it to use a drum kit,
> on channel 10, if it doesn't automatically do it.
> Good luck, y'all.
>
> -J
>
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