Keyboard drum jam to classic VGM

[Harmony]

Got a new camera for my birthday and recently built a new drum sample set. Put the two together and waddya got?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GlAcXKkbhg

Enjoy!

For those interested, this is the same free drum kit (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=515974#post515974) that I posted in the remixing forum a little while ago. SO much fun to jam with :)

>> NEW VIDEO <<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keS35m3EwrM

New video for Zircon's Groove (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23125) Bias (http://www.impactsoundworks.com/products/groove-bias-vintage-drum-sounds) drum sample library! For a limited time only, this video comes with increased production value!!!

[Dhsu]

Holy smokes.

[prophetik]

why do you have to be so good?

edit: oh, man, the audio isn't quite synced up. it hurts my head.

[Sam Ascher-Weiss]

Awesome work!

[OA]

not only does it rock, but youtube supports timestamps now! O_o

[DrumUltimA]

dude you play keyboard drums better than I play real drums

[Zephyr]

Oh wow, I didn't realize this was you from what you said in the other thread, this is freakin impressive!

[zircon]

Man I'm jealous. This is some amazing stuff!

[The Pezman]

You are the first person who I've seen do this effectively. You outclassed Virt. VIRT!

[prophetik]

i love that he adds in all those little triplet fills all over the place and yet still plays SO DEEP in the pocket.

edit: THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

[Fishy]

That was friggin awesome, you even did machine gun drums. I have to learn how to trigger drums like that.

[Harmony]

Thanks OCR, glad you enjoy!
Man I'm jealous. This is some amazing stuff!Dude, for someone who types at 166 wpm you shouldn't be all that jealous. Your fingers move pretty frickin fast too. In fact, if someone were to steal your mouse, you'd probably start programming all of your phat beats from the keyboard just like I do...only faster...and without any misspelled notes... :)

[Murmeli Walan]

I was actually clapping along in my chair during Starlight Zone. That was some fantastic drumming.

[TheSnowStorm]

You're talented. Seriously, I think it take great rhythm skills to do that with a keyboard. Nice set BTW.

[Strike911]

Good God man... that was epic.

[Kanthos]

Incredible work. Do you have any training on drums or are the beats just things you picked up from what you heard?

Also, I'm curious to know how you have the kit arranged. You've obviously got a lot more of each instrument than what you'd find in a standard GM drumkit setup. What software is hosting the samples you're using, and do you have any tricks you could share about how the samples are arranged? It seems like you've got a setup that's arranged the different samples to make it easy to remember where different sounds are. Also, how did you do the machine-gun snare? Was that something you triggered specially, or did you somehow play that?

[Harmony]

Incredible work. Do you have any training on drums or are the beats just things you picked up from what you heard?

Also, I'm curious to know how you have the kit arranged. You've obviously got a lot more of each instrument than what you'd find in a standard GM drumkit setup. What software is hosting the samples you're using, and do you have any tricks you could share about how the samples are arranged? It seems like you've got a setup that's arranged the different samples to make it easy to remember where different sounds are. Also, how did you do the machine-gun snare? Was that something you triggered specially, or did you somehow play that?You know, I've wanted to make a keyboard drumming tutorial for some time now. Mostly for fun, but it might help some people program some more realistic drum parts. I'm not a drummer at all though, so I'm a little hesitant to give a tutorial where I'd have to make up a bunch of drum terminology and have the DrumUltima's of the world laugh at my ignorance :)

You can download the kit from the link in the op to see how it's arranged, but it's basically GM-improved. There are identical kicks at B2 and C3. I have three identical snare samples on D3,Eb3,E3 with the only difference being the velocity mapping of the layers (medium-hard,light,hard). The snare roll at 0:51 is played using the medium-hard and hard keys. My favorite non-GM placement is having identical closed hi-hat samples on Gb3 and Ab3. Putting the pedal hi-hat on the Ab3 as in the GM spec is terrible for playing. Fortunately, most kits I've seen don't do that anymore. Other than that, the only special item (other than 4 splashes...I love splashes) are the choke samples on all of the crashes/splashes one-octave above their standard positions. Sometimes it's cool to have a single generic choke key that cuts whatever cymbal sample is playing, but with the sfz specification that this sample set was arranged in, adding a choke key doesn't easily allow you to control the attack and release of the choke. So I took the easy road out and did individual chokes.

One thing that I have yet to experiment with is placing another kick somewhere else, like B4. That would allow some really cool double-bass techniques that are basically impossible with the kicks so far left of everything else. In fact, I've been trying to learn this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZqwvjwqwK4)for keyboard and I don't think it's physically possible without a kick towards the right of the range

[zircon]

This video was so cool that I asked Harmony to do a similar one using drum samples from my new drum library, Groove Bias (http://www.impactsoundworks.com/products/groove-bias-vintage-drum-sounds/). The result is a ridiculously awesome remix of Peter Gunn's theme (also BGM from Spy Hunter) and James Bond (also BGM from Goldeneye.) Check it out -

http://vimeo.com/4682836

I've shown this to a number of drummer friends of mine IRL who are furious that they can't play like that on an actual set... :-)

[Red Shadow]

hello there
shnabubula junior
why aint you tell us
you a genius
sooner?

[BlackPanther]

The next viral video craze right here! If you make that drum tutorial I will go out and buy a keyboard so I can start learning that's some really hot shit man and I love that one you did for the new Groove Bias pack, that should be a commercial video for those drums lol.

Hella jealous man, hella jealous.

[Harmony]

hello there
shnabubula junior
why aint you tell us
you a genius
sooner?Oh man, if Sam ever decided to start playing piano drums...wow. Although I can't imagine someone who finesses the 88 keys so beautifully as a piano, banging rhythmically on just a few on them :)

[analoq]

The next viral video craze right here!
I doubt it can compete with videos that require no creativity, e.g. taking an already popular clip and adding a cat playing keyboard to the end.

[BlackPanther]

Hah, so true but one can hope. Plus I feel like this is the Ronald Jenkees of percussion and you see how big he is.

[zircon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWW6lUjC88 Here's the YouTube link if you want to vote it up/share/view etc, though analoq is right - w/o some serious external force this wouldn't go viral. :(

[Red Shadow]

Oh man, if Sam ever decided to start playing piano drums...wow. Although I can't imagine someone who finesses the 88 keys so beautifully as a piano, banging rhythmically on just a few on them :)

oh im sure he'd have some wild setup where every single key is represented in proper percussive octaves

[SoulinEther]

whoooooooooooooaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaa*de ep note*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... plus the video editing on that groove bias video made it all the more funner.

Still, I bet if shna decided to do something like this it would reek of 100% more Winglessesque flamboyant virtuosity. He'd be playing 128th notes up and down the whole keyboard while using his left arm to train a monkey how to jump through a flaming hoola-hoop and his right arm to stop an armed robber at a nearby convenience mart..

[Harmony]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWW6lUjC88 Here's the YouTube link if you want to vote it up/share/view etc, though analoq is right - w/o some serious external force this wouldn't go viral. :( Maybe I'll overdub some random heavily autotuned lyrics...that would give it some infectious viral punch. and if that doesn't get things moving, I do know a guy with a cat...

[KyleJCrb]

whoooooooooooooaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaa*de ep note*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... plus the video editing on that groove bias video made it all the more funner.

Still, I bet if shna decided to do something like this it would reek of 100% more Winglessesque flamboyant virtuosity. He'd be playing 128th notes up and down the whole keyboard while using his left arm to train a monkey how to jump through a flaming hoola-hoop and his right arm to stop an armed robber at a nearby convenience mart..

So... he'd be playing the piano with his penis?

[SoulinEther]

So... he'd be playing the piano with his penis?
My best advice to you is to neither ask nor tell.

[Sam Ascher-Weiss]

So good!!!!!!!!!!!!!