your opinion,live or canned drums

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 6 Jun 2006 1:45 pm

Quote: "I have done duos and trios with a drum machine,and it worked well. Almost always in places a drummer would never be welcome."
Do you mean there's a place where a drummer WOULD be welcome? Hmmmph!(muffled laughter)

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 9 Jun 2006 10:13 am

I have played with the electronic drums on and off for years. One thing about them, they don't speed and drag, and are a great way to work on your timing. My biggest complaint is that on every one I have heard, the snare drum hits exactly in the middle of the beat. This makes me feel as if the drummer is on the brink of starting to speed and is pushing me thereby messing up my phrasing. Great drummers strike their snare right on the back edge of the beat, aolmost dragging, but NOT!!! JMO. But as had been said before, I prefer them over a wave drummer (My term, meaning the beat speeds and drags and is never quite solid) ( I could never be a drummer myself. It's too embarassing to beat your meter in front of hundreds of people. )

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 9 Jun 2006 12:23 pm

A snare can be programmed to land a tad late.