Producing commercial drum tracks—especially in the pop, urban, and dance fields—typically means combining live and digital drums. Drum loops harness a world of sound that’s impossible to create on an acoustic kit alone, and there are infinite ways to use them. On the other hand, when you play a live kit with digital loops, you’re adding the human element, as well as the uniqueness of your own voice and feel. It can be a match made in heaven. Here are eight tips to owning your mixture of live playing and drum loops, whether you’re working in a studio or on stage. Love Playing to a Click Track This goes without saying in so much of today’s music, but the better you are at playing to a metronome, the happier you’ll be when playing along to a loop. Push and Pull Against Perfect Digital Time This is your job as the […]