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Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:50 pm
by narrator
Anyone know any good packs or resources for fills?
Just looking for a few decent incidentals to have coming in ever 16 bars or so..
fanks..
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:56 pm
by serox
Avoid packs. Use random sounds with weird FX, dist and filters spring to mind.
Get knocks, clicks, foot steps and shit like that. mix them low with some hats. They are to help just fill in the spaces between the kick an the snare and I find mixing them low works best so they dont stand out. Mix them up tho, mix some low and some higher to give some texture and mess around with velocity changes and panning. Small changes every couple of bars help to keep it interesting.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:02 pm
by -[2]DAY_-
dig thru some old r&b/soul/funk records, lots of bare drum fills with loads of character... u could chop/time stretch/tune em to fit the context
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:07 pm
by Assassin
Two quality bits of advice there.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:30 pm
by filthy_
write your own fills.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:46 pm
by RmoniK
drum on your desk and program what you drum
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:54 pm
by tripwire22
filthy_ wrote:write your own fills.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:30 pm
by samkablaam
its hard to program a fill on anything other than snare and make it sound good. i would sample something. or do what someone else said and fx it up
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:54 pm
by narrator
I'm pretty much looking for something to have about 3 times in a track. i dont think i'm gonna spend a shit load of time goin through folders looking for the perfect hits.
even the "Big guys" wouldnt bother their arse that much..
sure the start of the Funtcase remix of Rise of the idiots is loop number 1 in the Deadmau5 XFER sample pack..
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:13 pm
by howiegroove
a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:24 pm
by Stab Master Arson
howiegroove wrote:a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.
thats a fucking great idea man, I'm just learning about this groove stuff now, I didn't realize you could do that. I'm gonna go try it. Thanks!
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:01 pm
by benjam
Check out drum tabs on google you might get some ideas
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:24 pm
by -[2]DAY_-
howiegroove wrote: Viola!
i thought we wuz talkin drums here
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:54 pm
by Recessive Trait
dude seriously. write your own g.d. fills.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:46 pm
by DannyDubstep
Fills are so fun to make and devise that it'd be a shame to take em out of a pack.
Have a listen to some good hardcore/metal bands... for example As Blood Runs Black... [bare with me metal haters.]
Because they are shot through with sick fills.
I'm a drummer so I borrowed my mates electric drum kit and set a click track to 140 and just jammed around for 10 minutes. Still yet to use the midi file but yeah.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:11 pm
by RmoniK
DannyDubstep wrote:Fills are so fun to make and devise that it'd be a shame to take em out of a pack.
Have a listen to some good hardcore/metal bands... for example As Blood Runs Black... [bare with me metal haters.]
Because they are shot through with sick fills.
I'm a drummer so I borrowed my mates electric drum kit and set a click track to 140 and just jammed around for 10 minutes. Still yet to use the midi file but yeah.
Hrmmm; I agree with the metalcore thingies, but there are way better bands for drumming inspiration than As Blood Runs Black. Especially for dubstep. Since dubstep doesn't have a lot of fast rolls, double bass fills and blast beats, i wouldn't recommend it. I have found a lot of my drumming inspiration in Isis. They are chilled, but real genious.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:29 am
by RandoRando
howiegroove wrote:a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.
is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:41 pm
by DannyDubstep
RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Yes it is.
Easy tiger.
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:35 pm
by s3f
DannyDubstep wrote:RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Yes it is.
Easy tiger.
would you mind sharing how?
Re: Drum Fills
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:00 pm
by tripwire22
s3f wrote:DannyDubstep wrote:RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Yes it is.
Easy tiger.
would you mind sharing how?
if u got FL can u not just load the fill into slicex then export the thing as a midi file?