PLaying my drums the same over every sample

ANy advice on how to switch your drums up over different samples? I find myself coming up with the same drum pattern on alot of different samples

Copy the pattern, set it to record and jam out. Some dope patterns have a way of just "happening"

I recommend to listen to some real drummers that doesnt play so much bramdibididam kind of solos (hope you get what I mean ).
Watch some videos on youtube.

old Steve Gadd stuff
Led Zeppelin
Bernard Purdie
Cylde Stubblefield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jXALaMy4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FX_84iWPLU

also listen to stuff like DJ Shadow.

then listen to your sample again and let the sample control the vibe of the drums. Listen deep. The sample already "know" where the drums have to be. For that you'll have to turn off quantize

peace

Listen and practice.

Then listen and practice again

Read this - then read it again. A good article.


http://www.alandmoore.com/ramblings/ind ... ryOfDP.htm

peterpiper wrote:The sample already "know" where the drums have to be. For that you'll have to turn off quantize

That's a feeling that is hard to explain, but this is so true.

Peterpiper is right. Listen to alot of different stuff. And Bernard Purdie...... OMG!!!!! Dopeness. I've seen a video where he talks about "ghost notes". You will learn alot from listening to him.

One technique I use is probably a little odd, but works well for me. I'll take that drum beat I put together and resample it to a single pad. I'll **** with that one pad for a while while it's set to poly, then I set it to mono and **** with it some more, and sometimes I'll chop up that loop and rearrange it. Sometimes you end up creating a brand new beat (or at least get a new rhythm idea) with those same drums just by experimenting.

^^ that sounds like a pointless exercise ^^^

but anyhow chose different drum sounds and different drum sound kit combination's cos u thing certain sounds dont sit right when programmed a certain way hence this will make u put down a different pattern.

also keep some of ur old (different) drum patterns to hand in the mpc and try dropping samples over the drums cos if u always start with the sample ull drop the drums in the same way but try starting some tracks off using the drums and make the pattern really different then find the samples and work em in over the drums.

sorry, but how is my technique pointless? You never got into why you think so.

Destinite is right. You can resample a pattern, chop it up and play with this chops. The result depends on the original samples and how you played it in the original pattern before you chopped it. I never did this with "drums only" but I used that method with a complete loop I created (drums and melody/bass samples) So I had this basic loop with everything in it, resampled it and chopped it again changed the tempo of the song (not the sample itself) and played with it. The result was something very different than the original loop (patternwise. soundwise it was the same of course)

peace