Beatgridding rock... !?

[Villinus]

Holly hell, I've been trying for almost 30 minutes now to get a correct beat to "Don't stop believin'" by Journey. I don't think the drummer keeps a solid beat for more than 4 bars!

How do you guys do this? Tons of beatmarkers??

[Jester]

set up a gridded loop at the start and also one near the end. thats pretty much ur only option with live drumming mate.

[mmauve]

Ableton Live is your solution.

Warp it using an appropriate settings (Complex Pro is a nice start), and re-align the phases yourself in proper timings using its native BPM value. Export as a wav file, import into Traktor.

Problem solved.

[BradCee]

i discovered today that the offsprings drummer is/was pretty tight, original prankster only has 1 beat marker, and stays in for the whole track (just about, wanders a fraction but nothing noticable)

[dual citizen]

i discovered today that the offsprings drummer is/was pretty tight, original prankster only has 1 beat marker, and stays in for the whole track (just about, wanders a fraction but nothing noticable)

It may be that he was playing along with a tick track.

[sine143]

nother thing about the offspring is that they use the same drum pattern in half their songs, so he's pretty damn good at it.

[Villinus]

^^^Lol. good ideas, I'm still learning Ableton, but it is super good at warping. Maybe I'll look up a tutorial and learn something new

[BradCee]

It may be that he was playing along with a tick track.

possibly yeah, but that's a good thing.

[jakeintox]

Punkrock like Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise, NOFX have really solid drummers who use the same patterns a lot and can hold tempo better than most. Don't Stop Believing has a steadily increasing tempo, so trying to beatmatch it to anything will be near impossible for more than four bars at a time.

[BradCee]

tried gridding a local band yesterday (vanilla pod, check them out) out they were gridding around 200-220 bpm, and as i play house/breaks, it wasn't happening. dnb on the other would've been fine.