New band

[CHRSHARE]

I recently joined a new band and its the first band ive been in that writes original music. Im having some trouble finding an efficiant way of writing some really good drum parts for our songs. I can make up something basic that fits the song real fast during our practices but i want to actually put sometime into it and come up with something awsome. So if anyone has some tips or advice they could give me it would be greatly appreciated.

[Stickman Sam]

Tips:

Lock in with the other instruments, particularly bass guitar

Find a part of the song you want to write a new drum part to. Get your musos to play it over and over again, and experiment over it.

Lock in with the other instruments, particularly bass guitar

Try writing parts with only bass, snare and cymbals. If you can write good parts with those, you'll have better chances of being able to write good parts with more pieces.

And finally, lock in with the other instruments, particularly bass guitar. Can not be stressed enough by any means.

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EDIT: Good luck with the new band and future writing

[Futuro]

And finally, lock in with the other instruments, particularly bass guitar. Can not be stressed enough by any means.Why? Everyone playing tutti all the time leads to boring music.

But it seems to be what everyone likes nowadays....


Expirement. Apply rudiments.

[Aaron]

My tip: record your jams and then listen to it afterwards and write it out. Then, once you've got it on paper. Highlight the parts you want to add to and build it from scratch against a click with the vocals and bass in mind.

[Stickman Sam]

I don't know why I placed so much emphasis on that actually, it's just what I do when I'm writing parts.

Doesn't work though, my bassist is a guitarist who happens to own a bass, so although he has a tight rhythm feel, he changes it up a lot more than he probably should.

I just think it's a good idea if at least one of your limbs is at least outlining the rhythm of the bass, to add a tight feel to a piece.

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[Sunshine]

There's these CDs, Turn It Up and Lay It Down...has like 3 minutes of a bass player that you can play over, and the last couple tracks have like 8 bar silent spots to solo in.

My drum instructor burned Volumes 1 & 2 for me, they're pretty cool.

[stylers_new_account]

if its not fitting it might be the rest of the band. other than that. practice new material. or even practice your old material until your solid at it.

[Seafroggys]

about the whole bass/drum lockin' groove feel, I'm all for that, but from my own personal musical standpoint, I prefer the drums and bass to take on leads or counter-melodies in the music, and play under, through, or over the 'main melodies' of vocals and guitars. Makes music far more interesting IMO.

Nothing wrong with the groove music though.

[jon_slaps_bass]

I don't know why I placed so much emphasis on that actually, it's just what I do when I'm writing parts.

Doesn't work though, my bassist is a guitarist who happens to own a bass, so although he has a tight rhythm feel, he changes it up a lot more than he probably should.

I just think it's a good idea if at least one of your limbs is at least outlining the rhythm of the bass, to add a tight feel to a piece.

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I love you.

[Loser]

Why? Everyone playing tutti all the time leads to boring music.


I don't know the meaning of tutti, but are you suggesting that a band would be more interesting if they didn't play together?

[GooseFilms.net]

Having parts drop out and come back, intertwining and interweaving voices makes for a powerful effect, and shows how tight everybody is

Don't overthink your parts. You don't need to make the cover of Modern Drummer this week. It doesn't need to blow everybody away, it just needs to fit the music.

[Corkofski]

the way i make parts is, i write a fairly simple part at first jam, then i go home, make a rough recording of the basic melody however, (i use guitar pro, but no reasoon why you couldnt record it yourself or even sing it in) and then jam with that on a loop for ages. i find as it gets ingrained into me, i get bored and add bits. then you use those in your band