How to add more feeling to the drums!

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By shrednar Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:49 pm
Be more specific.

By Manilla Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:39 pm
swing?
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By Upright Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:43 pm
I like to sit on the pads and"bounce" on em' , then you really get that bounce.......you feel me. JUST KIDDING!!1LOL!!!1 :lol:
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Maybe...

By Lampdog Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:56 pm
blackcat wrote:What is the trick that J Dilla and many others use to let them drums bounce. (add more feelings to the drums)

peace.


Timing off

Skill?

By blackcat Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:02 am
shrednar wrote:Be more specific.


What i`m trying to say is, what is the trick that cats use so that the drums don`t sound stiffff. if you feel me on that one.

peace

By dax917 Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:18 am
What is the trick that J Dilla and many others use to let them drums bounce. (add more feelings to the drums)


He used a 3000LE ;)

okay everyone..attack me....NOW! lol
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By Upright Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:22 am
dax917 wrote:
He used a 3000LE ;)

okay everyone..attack me....NOW! lol


Stab...stab...punch....kick.....slap.......elbow....smack...stab.....stab!!1

LOL :lol: :lol:

8)
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By Lampdog Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:34 am
blackcat wrote:What i`m trying to say is, what is the trick that cats use so that the drums don`t sound stiffff. if you feel me on that one.

peace


I just told you.

By shrednar Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:40 am
Lamp said it. Turn your quantize off......

By MPZ60 Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:46 am
Mahe a quantized Hi hat loop, Turn Quantize off. Play the entire drum loop with your hands not starting on the one , start on the snare and play around to the first kick. Just get jazzy with it and do not use full level on the pads, have some velocity sensitivity for a real kit feel. That is how I do it or instead of a quantized hihat take an old funk loop and play over it then remove it.

By MPZ60 Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:47 am
And do it on a 60 and or 3000. :wink: Just Kidding
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By DJ-T Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:14 am
real drummers live,don't play with the quantize feel,that's why it sounds like a real (J Dilla) drummer playing.JDilla is not the only human with the mpc that's doing it. listen to ma man Lamp! 8)
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By DJ-T Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:15 am
oh my bad........ I forgot he's dead. No disrepect tho. 8)

By anonymous_103 Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:30 am
MPZ60 wrote:Mahe a quantized Hi hat loop, Turn Quantize off. Play the entire drum loop with your hands not starting on the one , start on the snare and play around to the first kick. Just get jazzy with it and do not use full level on the pads, have some velocity sensitivity for a real kit feel. That is how I do it or instead of a quantized hihat take an old funk loop and play over it then remove it.


thats pretty much it. try this. only use quantizing on the kick and nothing else. drum the snare in a tad bit earlier than the metronome tick. and for high hats, hit them a tad bit after the metronome tick. use the velocity on that one too. and for more flavor, ad a snap or a clap to the snare and dont quantize it. it takes time and rhythm. but honestly, theres so many other ways to do it. study cats like battlecat, illmind, symbolic one, black milk, and kev brown. its not as hard as you think. that is if you have rhythm.
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