Harmony Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Got a new camera for my birthday and recently built a new drum sample set. Put the two together and waddya got? Enjoy! For those interested, this is the same free drum kit that I posted in the remixing forum a little while ago. SO much fun to jam with >> NEW VIDEO << New video for Zircon's Groove Bias drum sample library! For a limited time only, this video comes with increased production value!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Holy smokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 why do you have to be so good? edit: oh, man, the audio isn't quite synced up. it hurts my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Ascher-Weiss Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 not only does it rock, but youtube supports timestamps now! O_o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumUltimA Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 dude you play keyboard drums better than I play real drums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Oh wow, I didn't realize this was you from what you said in the other thread, this is freakin impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Man I'm jealous. This is some amazing stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 You are the first person who I've seen do this effectively. You outclassed Virt. VIRT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 That was friggin awesome, you even did machine gun drums. I have to learn how to trigger drums like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmony Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murmeli Walan Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I was actually clapping along in my chair during Starlight Zone. That was some fantastic drumming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSnowStorm Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 You're talented. Seriously, I think it take great rhythm skills to do that with a keyboard. Nice set BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike911 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Good God man... that was epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmony Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 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 for keyboard and I don't think it's physically possible without a kick towards the right of the range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 This video was so cool that I asked Harmony to do a similar one using drum samples from my new drum library, Groove Bias. 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 hello there shnabubula junior why aint you tell us you a genius sooner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackPanther Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmony Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 hello thereshnabubula 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analoq Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackPanther Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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