Drumming timing

[jsong56]

when drumming to get your timing right who does babys while the fader is off between each pause of the record???

 

or who just holds the record then lets go when they want to release the snare for eg.

 

 

 

anyone know what i mean?

[Steelio]

i couldnt tell you because if i dont go into a trance while im "drumming" it sounds absolutely shite.

[Steve]

I hold the record and let go.

[tutniks123]

I get what u mean but personally i think that would just complicate things for me. I just hold and let go like Steve. This way the more you drum the better your timing gets and you wouldnt need to do babys.

[cbay]

different strokes for different folks, right?

 

babys would help to keep your own internal rhythm, i guess.

 

i stop and hold the record though.

[Liam]

Unfortunately, I do the babies. It's not a good thing IMO. I can do it without, but it take a lot of concentration.

[drakule]

when you quicken up, or do patterns with more complex rhythms you wont be able to do babies as you wont have time, so its a habbit to get out of - try sniffing, that was an old trick got taught years ago, but works quite well, and after a while you stop sniffing but you can still hear the sniff in your head which keeps shit on lock

[Steve]

I practice drumming along to tracks which helps. If you load a song into track 1 of Audition and then record your drumming in track 2, you'll hear where you're off time. It's a fucking hard skill to master well.

[drakule]

it is, steve where can i find audition? i've never used it and would like to give it a go as a side to PT...

[thejesterkid]

Audition is what used to be Cooledit...

[Steve]

it is, steve where can i find audition? i've never used it and would like to give it a go as a side to PT...

If you use eMule or any BitTorrent client you can find it easily enough.

[Guest Deeswift]

I can't work out what you mean by doing babies in the middle of drumming. How do you find the time to do that?

[chile]

dee, he means like when the you repeat a drum pattern and you have the fader closed and your cueing up the record to release it again.. do you baby it to keep it in time or just do the quicker but broken timing method of pulling the record to the start and releasing.. ive seen ruck use both methods and think doing babies would help at slower speed drumming as you have time to do them and they help keep the rhythem.

[Guest Deeswift]

OK, I see what you're saying. I'd only do that if there was a pause for anything longer than a split second or something, otherwise I hold the record.

[Vet]

dee, he means like when the you repeat a drum pattern and you have the fader closed and your cueing up the record to release it again.. do you baby it to keep it in time or just do the quicker but broken timing method of pulling the record to the start and releasing.. ive seen ruck use both methods and think doing babies would help at slower speed drumming as you have time to do them and they help keep the rhythem.

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The dual purpose of doing babies is to keep the drums at the same pitch when drumming and also helps tempo slightly. When you drum, especially at slower tempos its more to allow the record to not have to build up speed on the platter. When you just 'let go' the sample in general there can be a bend to the pitch in the sample....consider it the same way you would input "velocity" on a sampler so the drums hit hard on each release of the kick/hihat/snare.

[chile]

dee, he means like when the you repeat a drum pattern and you have the fader closed and your cueing up the record to release it again.. do you baby it to keep it in time or just do the quicker but broken timing method of pulling the record to the start and releasing.. ive seen ruck use both methods and think doing babies would help at slower speed drumming as you have time to do them and they help keep the rhythem.

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The dual purpose of doing babies is to keep the drums at the same pitch when drumming and also helps tempo slightly. When you drum, especially at slower tempos its more to allow the record to not have to build up speed on the platter. When you just 'let go' the sample in general there can be a bend to the pitch in the sample....consider it the same way you would input "velocity" on a sampler so the drums hit hard on each release of the kick/hihat/snare.

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interesting