I'm thinking you can buy drum loops from somewhere perhaps even Amazon....*grin*. Someone online has got to have them. I downloaded some loops a couple of years ago somewhere and they're great to work with. You just drag and drop each 4/4 time measured loop into your editing session on your recording software like your Audacity. You can stack a long drum track of steady beat by cutting and pasting the same loop behind each other...then add a drum fill or tom roll...followed by a single cymbal crash on another channel. The thing about using loops this way is that you can make it simple or as complicated as you want. I usually used several channels JUST for the drums. 1 channel would be a high hat intro cue that could fade out on the mixdown so you don't hear it. Another channel would be the main drum loops with intros and fills and stops and starts (nothing looped). Another would be just cymbal crashes so that I could put them exactly where I wanted them in the measure within 1/16th of a beat. Then I'd have separate channels for percussion instruments...like tamborine...triangle etc. Lots of tracks so if you want to get that complicated and have total control of your drums you need software that supplies you with several recording tracks. This is ONLY if you want more detailed and realistic drumming loops. For practice and jamming along a simple drum track would do. The nice thing about the loops I downloaded was that they're sampled from different kinds of drum kits. All with different tones. If I want a rock drum kit...I select from the appropriate folder....if I want a jazz kit...same thing. Each loop is different too. They all have a different beat and some are in different times too like 3/4 time etc. Even the drum fills are all different. You could really mix and match to make great drum tracks and it's real easy. They all sound really cool. If you want I can burn you a copy of the loop library that I have Tim if you think it would benefit you.
Last edited by tone2thebone; September 27th, 2006 at 09:17 AM.
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