Originally Posted by Mark Kaufman
Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
If you must use a drum program, cut it at the ritard.


That's how it's done, and then when the drums cut out, you play the ending freestyle on whatever instrument you have the best feel for, and then use that performance as the guide for the other tracks to follow. You play the final missing drum beats manually to match the music tracks.

Tempo changes inside the song are pretty tough to do with a drum program.


I used to have trouble with tempo changes, but ive grown and matured since then, ahemmm.

A plain piece of cake. The "insert tempo change" helps a lot. trying to do ti manually the changes werent sticking

Its not perfect. but If you add a drum fill before the break for example, all you need do is break the fill in half of tempo.

I was working on a song in 150, the bridge is 138, so the first part of the fill is 144, the second half of the fill 141, then a 138 tempo for the bridge, then it jumps back to 150.

Actually sounds similiar in timing and temp to this bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvWwtfKiGUk

What a great bridge, and, The Who's bridge is pretty good too.