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tip009. drums sub dir's.
here i have 2 dirs.
drums and drums-demos.
within drums dir note lots of drums dir's.
according to style.
DONT CHANGE ANYTHING !!
you can hear each by clicking on the win > play icon
and win will play them.
any you like you could copy i guess to your daw multitrack project
eg as a ruff clik trak. if you didnt wanna open up biab at a
particular time.
(and style files i wont go into right now.
later on. )
but i'm gonna now go thru the drums demos dir.
youll notice the drums demos dir has lotsa songs.
lotsa styles etc etc. different tempos.
(note..youll notice if you hold your mouse over a song icon you can see the
song bpm displayed before clicking on it. )
just clik on a biab icon and chord sheet appears.
(note..the seq files are for opening in RB for example.)
some people listening to some demos will prolly hear lots of older
music styles. in many cases some might say lounge or 60's.
a lot of styles are jazzier with different chord extensions.
but lets not be quick to judge some of these styles.
lots can be learned from them .
keep an open mind...mebe new chord progressions jazzed down for
say a rocky song or whatever. once again EXPERIMENT !!
dont just think "well my granny or grandad would listen to that" !!
CHANGE IT WITHOUT CHANGEING THE UNDRLYING FILE IN THE DIR.
useing save as to a different dir.
heres another tip..lets say you hear a style close to a song
idea of yours. in order to avoid any possibility of
changeing by accident anything in the drum demos dir..
just right clik over the biab icon..and select copy..
and copy n paste the song file to a seperate "test" dir elswhere on
your hard drive. i just tried this..works great.
just simple copy n paste.
remember all is changeable. for example in one country drum demo
i changed a patch to violin. in another i changed to clarinet.
for those like me that are more "rocker orientated" ..lol..
youll notice also in the drums demo dir grungier demos etc.
see what you can do with these via experimentation.
once again changeing midi patches n real instruments etc etc like before.
changeing chords etc etc n saveing to a test dir youve set up for
testing different ideas.
for example i brought up a hiphop demo style but soloed the drums...
n went hmm...thats cool !! n it gave me a song idea on its own
just listening to the beat. n i found a nice mini drum break/solo.
within the demos youll see lots of jazz demos.
there are some cool chords/progressions in these examples.
once again experiment with them.
(as an aside my dad may he rip would have loved many of the jazz drum demoes
cos he was a jazz drummer decades ago.)
heres an idea...
midway thru this extensive set of demos..
i took a rest n laid on thev bed.
what was interesting was all the demos were swirling around in my head
and giving me new song snippet ideas.
as we all know the human subconcious is a curious thing,
and you never know where a new song idea might come from.
another idea is..as you go thru these demos you might hear once again interesting
drum breaks or mini solos. what i'm contemplating is building up a library
of drum solos //mini breaks//longer drum solos in a seperate dir on my pc
that i can then import into daw multitrak software.
after my likkle rest i was grooving on some of the LA pop examples.
changeing em around n makeing em heavier.
adding a real trak geetar heavy sorta idea n solos etc etc.
one of many i started to groove on was a upbeat nashville even 8 demo.
so i copied n pasted the biab song file to my seperate "favs"
dir within my own biabsongs dir.
man that rock thrash half time ev16 is a big drum sound.
gonna think where i can use it.
on one of the rhumba examples i generated a soft romantic intro i liked,
once again experimenting.
saved one of the salsa ones to my favs dir for further
experimenting. v nice salsa examples for use in other songs.
one point to note...you can also use the wizard to play along on your puter kbd !!
(another option.).

well i came away from all the drum demoes with a load of new ideas i gotta think about.
hope you do too. you MUST spend detailed time going thru experimenting with
each one.
more tips n ideas to come as i get time.

ps..if folks could comment whether they find these tips usefull or not..
cos i am time compressed n doin my best.
if usefull i'll carry on.