November Birthdays 
Hi,
Dunno whether this has been discussed before but I thought I'd share something I have been doing with all my latest solo recordings.
Usually I record with a band so that's a different discussion but when I am recording at home, in my living room, I usually don't have a drummer or drumkit available.
I am not that fond of programming drums. I used to do it, sometimes with good results, sometimes not. It always took a lot of time as well, and when I want to record I want to record, and not program drums. I never got the midi clock to work at my recorder to work either so I always needed to have the drumpart ready before I could start to record. If I wanted to have the different drumsounds on different tracks on the recorder (not just a stereo track) it was even more work.
So at one point in time I started using a diffence approach, it goes like this:
- Program 1 bar of drums.
- Record the first track, bass or rythm guitar while listening to the drums. Do not record the drums.
- Record a second track, or a third or whatever.
- Attach a keyboard with touch sensitivity to a sound module or whatever and find a nice bass drum patch.
- Record a nice bass drum track while playing it with your index finger on the keyboard.
- Record a snare track in the same way.
- Record cymbal or any other drum track same way.
- (re-) record any track; so let the guitar respond to the snare or the bass to the bassdrum or the other way around.
So as a result you will have the different drumsounds on different tracks responding to your other tracks and vice versa. I find it a very fast method and you get a drumtrack that you just not could have programmed anyway.
Am I the only one who does this ? 
