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Hey Brian,
I bought a used Boss DR-550 drum machine cheap off E-Bay a while
back. It is several years old and is a very basic and no frills unit.
But it came with a pattern book and here is a pattern for a basic
surf/rockabilly beat. Here it is in drum machine notation:
1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
Kick Drum: X X
Snare: X X X
Hi Hat: X X X X X X X X
Just like tab, you'll have to view this with a non-proportional font
so the spaces line up. The top row is each beat in a 4/4 time
signature, the second row just divides the measure into 16 parts so I
could line up the X's. This is the classic snare drum "2 on the 2
and 1 on the 4".
Not a MIDI file but hope that helps. It was a revelation to me since
I am not a drummer and needed something better than a metronome to
practice with.
BN
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "Brian Schultz" <n2longboards@y...> wrote:
> Like other contributors, I am playing solo and also looking for
> some surf drum loops, samples or anything I can use in Logic or
> Cubase for drum tracks. It seems so weird that all these drum
> machines and loop cd's would be lacking in surf drum samples.
> I can't find anything close to surf beat anywhere (except for
> Albatross's website.) I'm not a drummer, do I have to write it out
> (somehow) anyway, if any of you guys have an audio, or midi file I
> can use (for fun, not commercially) of surf drums, I would be
> majorly stoked.
>
> keep the faith.
>
> Brian
