I've been fooling around and doing some deep diving this week into my DAW and the MIDI tools that come with it. MIDI has been a mystery to me and I've been meaning to work on the drum tools that come with Cubase for a long time, but I never really disciplined myself to sit down and spend any time with it. Playing solos over backing tracks is just too much fun.
But this week I finally managed to spend some quality time with my DAW. I decided learn how to put together a drum beat from scratch, with no tools except my basic (not a drum machine) software, my computer keyboard and a mouse. While I was at it, I also put together a MIDI bass track, mainly so I wouldn't lose my sanity (or my place) listening to hours of just 1-2 drum beats.
The beat is started with the idea to copy the characteristic drum riff from ZZ Top's 'Gimme All Your Lovin,' but in a 12 bar format. There are three bridges where I decided to abandon the 12 bar format and include ZZ Top's refrain. The plan was, I when I got the drum track to my liking, I was going to lay down a "real" bass track on it. But by the time I had tweaked a few things, the bass line sounded pretty much like what I would play, so I put in a few timing errors and one or two missed notes and it started sounding like me, so the MIDI track became the final bass track. There is no rhythm guitar in it.
It comes in at about 9 minutes. I'll leave it here in the hopes someone finds it worthy of using.
https://fuzzypinkstrap.com/VJR/clean/GimmeAllYourSolos-D.mp3
But this week I finally managed to spend some quality time with my DAW. I decided learn how to put together a drum beat from scratch, with no tools except my basic (not a drum machine) software, my computer keyboard and a mouse. While I was at it, I also put together a MIDI bass track, mainly so I wouldn't lose my sanity (or my place) listening to hours of just 1-2 drum beats.
The beat is started with the idea to copy the characteristic drum riff from ZZ Top's 'Gimme All Your Lovin,' but in a 12 bar format. There are three bridges where I decided to abandon the 12 bar format and include ZZ Top's refrain. The plan was, I when I got the drum track to my liking, I was going to lay down a "real" bass track on it. But by the time I had tweaked a few things, the bass line sounded pretty much like what I would play, so I put in a few timing errors and one or two missed notes and it started sounding like me, so the MIDI track became the final bass track. There is no rhythm guitar in it.
It comes in at about 9 minutes. I'll leave it here in the hopes someone finds it worthy of using.
https://fuzzypinkstrap.com/VJR/clean/GimmeAllYourSolos-D.mp3
