Help with odd time sigs and groove
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:36 pm
Just trying to create nice odd time signature grooves similar to Tool and Karnivool.
The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have a hard time finding a default setting where the drum beat has a nice coherent groove instead of kind of all over the place. For example, if I create an 11/8 groove, and I want the punches on 5 and 11, it would be nice if my starting groove were nice and simple and I could build on that.
As an example of a type of groove I'm looking for, here are two Tool songs (the opening drum grooves in particular)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hii17sjSwfA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g
And a Karnivool song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks
On top of that, I'm not quite sure which drummer and style to choose.. I've tried Custom Rock, Eclectic Rock, Prog metal, Nu-metal, and a few others with varying degrees of success.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have a hard time finding a default setting where the drum beat has a nice coherent groove instead of kind of all over the place. For example, if I create an 11/8 groove, and I want the punches on 5 and 11, it would be nice if my starting groove were nice and simple and I could build on that.
As an example of a type of groove I'm looking for, here are two Tool songs (the opening drum grooves in particular)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hii17sjSwfA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g
And a Karnivool song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks
On top of that, I'm not quite sure which drummer and style to choose.. I've tried Custom Rock, Eclectic Rock, Prog metal, Nu-metal, and a few others with varying degrees of success.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!