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Up until that time I’d been using a “rhythm machine” of some sort, Boss or Yamaha, for practice. It sucked pretty bad.



A point which might well have been raised in the original post. What were we doing before BIAB?

I play enough guitar, bass, and keys to get by. I got BIAB primarily to take the effort out of drums/drummers. Until BIAB I had been using:

  • Nothing. My acoustic guitar and voice should be enough to carry the lot. The audience can imagine the rest, right?
  • Drummers, when I could get them, which wasn't often. I didn't want to move my four-track reel-to-reel and they didn't want to move their drums, and one or the other of us always seemed to live in an apartment.
  • "Drum Drops" records (you know, those black vinyl thingies?), with 3:07 of professionally produced drum tracks in various styles. These actually worked pretty well if your song fit the AABAB structure they gave you. I never used "Music Minus One," but some of you will remember that. Same deal with structure.
  • Boss Dr. Rhythm. I think I recorded one tune with it.
  • Korg DDM-110 Super Drums with 2 count them 2 dynamic levels. Never recorded anything with it, but I still have it.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."