Drums like Satriani´s Starry Night - help needed

[XoechZ_at]

Hello!

I am sure I am not allowed to post a clip from the original song here, due to copyright stuff. We all know that.

So I hope that some of you know the song: Starry Night by Joe Satriani.

I really like the drum groove (beat, rhythm, pattern or how you ever want to call it) in this song. I am trying to get this drum pattern in Jamstix3. But fact is that I have never tried this before. So can anyone of you give me a hint with which style/drummer to start for Starry Night?

Or are there some other general advices for copying drum beats from known songs?

Any help would be nice!

Thanks,

XoechZ

[Wolff_man]

I think the easiest way would be to program the basic pattern in the midi editor of your DAW and then import that into jamstix as shown in this video
http://www.rayzoon.com/jamstix3_vid4.html
Then jamstix will use this midi groove you created as the underlying feel for the track, i do this often and it works very well.

HTH's

Cheers

[XoechZ_at]

That´s a nice idea. I will try it.

Thanks,

XoechZ

[Ralph @ Rayzoon]

The best approach is usually to identify what part of the groove can be done by a JS3 style. In this case it sounds like Dial-A-metal on halftime would do all except the kick. So would then hand-edit just the kick, save the bar and then load Dial-A-metal, disable the kick on the brain and use a Groove Importer to add my saved kick pattern to it.