Help matching/creating a drum beat for a riff
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:39 am
Dudes,
I've got a verse thing going on in a song I'm writing, but I'm trying to program some drums for it and I can't get the right feel into it. So ah... help?
The verse is around 124 bpm, and one guitar is playing 16th notes, every other note pulling off to an open string. Kinda staccato/mutey, no brutal distortion (sad face) just overdrive. The other guitar is playing arpeggios, where four or five notes are played (8th notes) and they ring out for the rest of the bar and the next one. Bit harder distortion on that track with some delay.
So that's all nice, but I really want to find a way to convey the sense of forward movement and speed that I feel when I hear it in my head, but instead it seems whatever I do ends up feeling kinda doomy and slow. I've tried a couple of different drum beats but can't get out of that sort of relaxed and melancholy feel. Tried putting the snare on every beat but even that just feels kinda slow and depressed, but with a snare on every beat. I don't really want to change the guitars (yet) as I don't hear them as being melancholy without drums - it's when I try to put a beat to it that it gets messed up.
Does anyone have any suggestions - either youtube links to check out what other bands have done, or for the drum inclined amongst you drum notation?
tl;dr
Want to create a beat around 120 bpm that feels like it has lots of forward momentum. Failing. Help wanted.
I've got a verse thing going on in a song I'm writing, but I'm trying to program some drums for it and I can't get the right feel into it. So ah... help?
The verse is around 124 bpm, and one guitar is playing 16th notes, every other note pulling off to an open string. Kinda staccato/mutey, no brutal distortion (sad face) just overdrive. The other guitar is playing arpeggios, where four or five notes are played (8th notes) and they ring out for the rest of the bar and the next one. Bit harder distortion on that track with some delay.
So that's all nice, but I really want to find a way to convey the sense of forward movement and speed that I feel when I hear it in my head, but instead it seems whatever I do ends up feeling kinda doomy and slow. I've tried a couple of different drum beats but can't get out of that sort of relaxed and melancholy feel. Tried putting the snare on every beat but even that just feels kinda slow and depressed, but with a snare on every beat. I don't really want to change the guitars (yet) as I don't hear them as being melancholy without drums - it's when I try to put a beat to it that it gets messed up.
Does anyone have any suggestions - either youtube links to check out what other bands have done, or for the drum inclined amongst you drum notation?
tl;dr
Want to create a beat around 120 bpm that feels like it has lots of forward momentum. Failing. Help wanted.