Do you program or play the drums?

[Taboosun]

Hi guys. This questioned just popped up not too long ago and I was curious to see the responses. The reason i ask is because just yesterday when I was making a beat I played my drums via the keys instead of programming and i must say, I loved it. It was a little sloppy the first couple times but that is expected, since i always program my drums.

[BeatComMusicGRP]

both...

[bandcoach]

ditto...

[BeatGenerals]

Yeah both depending on what king of sound im going for.

[bandcoach]

Oh, and by play, I mean play an actual kit with sticks in hand and feet on teh pedals.....

[Still_learning]

Sometimes I play the kick and clap/snare on my m-audio keystation, I also used my roland drum machine a few times never liked it much though. But on hi hats I usually program them lol hi hats are hard to play for me... Never played a real drum set though.

[zex]

if you are drummer, you can easily program drums with your mouse
if not, good luck
it depends of genre you want to program...

[dangersgs]

I think that it's better to play them.Even if you decide to quantize them after,you still get more creative by playing them instead of just clicking the mouse.

[zex]

how he can be creative when he plays on keybord? :P

[dangersgs]

how he can be creative when he plays on keybord? :P

How can he be creative when he fills some boxes with a mouse click ? When you make a melody do you agree with me that you have to play the keyboard for best results ? Well....in my opinion,it's the same with drums.A mpc/mpd is better but once you get used to playing drums on the keys it's the same thing.