Ways to play drums for electronic music
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 735 posts since 25 Aug, 2019
Hello everyone,
I know that most producers use piano roll/step sequencer to program drums for electronic music.
But there are other options I see, for example to use the midi keyboard to play drums, finger drumming with pads, or even more advanced option a tabletop drums and play with sticks.
Does anyone has experience with these and can share what are the advantages of each, and how to choose between them?
Thanks
I know that most producers use piano roll/step sequencer to program drums for electronic music.
But there are other options I see, for example to use the midi keyboard to play drums, finger drumming with pads, or even more advanced option a tabletop drums and play with sticks.
Does anyone has experience with these and can share what are the advantages of each, and how to choose between them?
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 6425 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
Keys on keyboard - pretty good, and you can play one take with right/left hand just doing hihats, one take doing kick+snare and one for fills etc, some variation to it all. You develop a feel that is really hard to program, if even possible. Never felt programming were fun, unless a drum machine doing realtime on that too, one way to go also. That also allow to do a little off beat, and little late snare etc.
It's almost doable to do full kit with two hands, but kick, that is where I went to a pads module Yamaha DD55 to play with sticks, and you got both feet to do hihat coosh open/closed and kick etc. Takes a little practise but worth it. Rather cool training stuff built into Yamaha stuff too, IMO.
Then went on with proper edrums, which I did since, last 12 years or so.
It's almost doable to do full kit with two hands, but kick, that is where I went to a pads module Yamaha DD55 to play with sticks, and you got both feet to do hihat coosh open/closed and kick etc. Takes a little practise but worth it. Rather cool training stuff built into Yamaha stuff too, IMO.
Then went on with proper edrums, which I did since, last 12 years or so.
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- addled muppet weed
- 105849 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
- KVRian
- 537 posts since 31 May, 2015 from the Iberian Peninsula
That depends. If you don't know how to play well, you won't get any groove going even if you record the drums yourself.
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- KVRist
- 490 posts since 3 Feb, 2018
I do. I've tried a whole bunch of different methods.. finger drumming is nice for fills and breaks but sequencing is still king. You can't have things feeling too human.
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- Banned
- 1780 posts since 26 Aug, 2012