After a good spell away from recording, I returned with a mission to make progress on a solution to my drumming problem. In this installment I make my first foray into drum programming with the help of How to make a drum ‘n’ bass beat in Ableton Live (from http://www.musicradar.com/computermusic).

I followed along the step-by-step, non-video (by choice) tutorial (which assumed a little more knowledge than I had), figuring things out along the way – for example, how to add a “Simpler” track (a feature of the Ableton DAW for using samples) – and placing the ‘hits’ of the various pieces of the drum rack as instructed on the appropriate notes/beats.

It lost me at “Insert an EQ Eight after the Simpler and set the first band’s setting to high-pass..” I can add an Equalizer, but down know what an “EQ Eight”is – therefore, it would be difficult to modify the “first band” setting.  More research and tinkering is required, but I managed a beat.

The non-human beat is a task master and unforgiving. I discovered I am not always perfectly on time when playing bass 🙂

This track’s demo was an early one and perhaps not as complete as some of my other demos. I am tinkering with the song while continually learning the ins and outs of home recording.

Here are the results with another vocal attempt (includes some ugly splicing):

-Bejzak Out of the Box