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Lit – My Own Worst Enemy

Jaymis Loveday — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:54:12 +0000

“Standard” rock track. Some nice snare fills. Good ongoing kick-separation to build kick-only muscle memory.

Chorus is straight, quavers on the ride with crash on each bar, and some snare/cymbal fills.

Snare and Kick/Crash fill before the final verse is nice and simple, but flows in nicely. There’s some good Crash+Ride cymbal action towards the end, and a syncopated kick+snare+toms fill towards the end that’s going to take me a couple of goes in practice to get right.

Learning drums with Rock Band: The Return

Jaymis Loveday — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:39:16 +0000

In honor of the amazing Rock Band 3 announcements at E3, I’ve decided to start back at the beginning of my Rock Band Tour so I can use it to teach me a new musical skill: Hihat pedal.

I’ve been playing Rock Band with a midi kit for over a year now, and its trained me up enough that I’ll be drumming on stage very soon. Something I had to learn outside the game, though, was using hihat. The first time I sat down at an acoustic kit I had to start from scratch with my right foot (I’m a lefty drummer).

I’ve now mapped my DD505 kit through a great piece of Mac software called MidiPipe, which allows me to switch between Yellow and Blue cymbals using the hihat pedal. So it’s time to start my Expert tour again, and train up my right foot.

As I go through, I’m going to do a mini-review of each song I play, to document the technical skills each can be useful for learning: Kick training, Double-kick, Syncopation, Fills, Hihat switching etc.

Guitar Hero: World Tour – Drum Kit MIDI Note List

Jaymis Loveday — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:56:40 +0000

I’ve been spending the holidays with the family, in a house which has a proper electronic drum kit, so of course we tried plugging it in to the Guitar Hero: World Tour kit. After googling around for a couple of hours I couldn’t find a list of the note values for the MIDI input, so I went through and found them by trial and error.

MIDI Note Number list for Guitar Hero: World Tour drum kit MIDI IN

0. Kick: 36 or 41
1. Red: 38
2. Yellow: 46
3. Blue: 48
4. Orange: 49
5. Green: 45

Playing World Tour drums on a higher-end kit is great fun, super accurate, if you’re looking for apartment-friendly drumming it can be even quieter than World Tour’s kit. Oh yeah!