you play drums vs rip off other drum tracks..to make your so called pieces to gain pseudo music creation

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

RiffMasters is just a game ..
No need to get worked up about it, I barely participate, it is just to get you out playing more in a different zone..
No more No less

 

[Sapient]

 

[iblive]

Compared to something like a song I recorded the other day. I used a drum track off the internet, but I wrote and played all the guitar parts, bass parts, lyrics, vocals, plus I recorded and mixed it.

Had so much fun doing Jessie’s Girl, already have another drum track downloaded into Reaper for a song I’ve been wanting to get serious on. Four piece band. So drum track and I’ll figure out the bass and two guitars.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Had so much fun doing Jessie’s Girl, already have another drum track downloaded into Reaper for a song I’ve been wanting to get serious on. Four piece band. So drum track and I’ll figure out the bass and two guitars.

There we go! Had so much fun looking to do more. Isn't that what it really is all about?

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

There we go! Had so much fun looking to do more. Isn't that what it really is all about?

Yes indeed..

 

[ibmorjamn]

I’m going down the synth rabbit hole at the moment working on a spy theme. It’s fun and exciting but also makes me want to rip my hair out lol

100% , frustrating but it is also fun.
I could put keyboard in every song I do but most people reject it or maybe reject the whole song. Lol

 

[ibmorjamn]

Good point. If one has a properly mic'd kit and a good drummer, he might do what is required in a couple of takes. The fun part is in the mixdown.
With MIDI drums, there would be far more involved and conceivably more creativity to get an entire drum kit down for a song. That really makes it more creative and in a sense harder to do and more time consuming.
So.... worth more points?

Imho, yes it should worth more points. Lol

 

[smitty_p]

I put more time and creative thought into my MIDI drum parts than the average drummer does. So what if they’re not “real?”

Very interesting point. In a way, it demonstrates the blurring of the lines between composer and instrumentalist which is enabled by modern technology. Before our modern era, a composer could write a piece of music, but the composer relied on individual musicians to play the parts to hear what they sounded like. Today, the composer can literally create the music - the actual sound - as the composition is developed.