To drum or not to drum?

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 08-07-2022, 12:31 PM

Curios is anyone cares for one version versus the other?

**mr. beaumont** · 08-07-2022, 12:54 PM

Druns for me. Actually, one of my favorite things in jazz is hearing someone take things out harmonically but still have a driving swing from the rhythm section.

Probably comes from playing a lot of solo guitar myself.. I hardly ever listen to it!

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 08-07-2022, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Druns for me. Actually, one of my favorite things in jazz is hearing someone take things out harmonically but still have a driving swing from the rhythm section.

Probably comes from playing a lot of solo guitar myself.. I hardly ever listen to it!

thanks

I think this is the first time that I played with drums and printed a version with the track muted just for yuks, and it weirdly kinda works where I don’t miss hearing it. Maybe cause I know what it sounded like already? Thanks for commenting.

**ccroft** · 08-07-2022, 03:43 PM

I like the drums. I'd love to hear you do something like this with a real drummer who could react to your playing and maybe layout or change groove along the way. Heck...maybe throw a bass player in there while your at it :-)

Drumgenius is a pretty great sounding robot though.

**Mark Kleinhaut** · 08-07-2022, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by ccroft

I like the drums. I'd love to hear you do something like this with a real drummer who could react to your playing and maybe layout or change groove along the way. Heck...maybe throw a bass player in there while your at it :-)

Drumgenius is a pretty great sounding robot though.

I was doing that weekly before the pandemic. Put out many CDs back in the day too. Ah, those were the days. Now I’m an attic player.

**citizenk74** · 08-07-2022, 07:44 PM

With drums, for me. My lack of natural time needs an anchoring point. It provides a sense of depth as well as motion. Enjoy your imaginative playing, as ever!

**ccroft** · 08-10-2022, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut

I was doing that weekly before the pandemic. Put out many CDs back in the day too. Ah, those were the days. Now I’m an attic player.

Yeah... I know man. I was following you way before The Bug dropped on us. What I was actually sayin' is that I really like your playing, and I wish I could hear some new stuff with more humans in the same room.

I'm stuck in the basement myself. At least it stays nice 'n cool down there...