Drums intros - fills - endings - any video tutorials??

Guys i need a good source to learn drum intros, fills and endings Thanks in advance

You would like to learn how to program them I'm guessing?

I would suggest downloading and studying the free "Groove Monkee" MIDI drum files. IIRC there are a lot of fills/intros/endings etc. in addition to a great variety of grooves.

I go for Groove Monkee too. Better loops than most imo and good service.

The best way is to learn how to drum in a musical context. Programming almost comes naturally then. You have to have an intertest and understanding of kit drums, their sounds and how they are used in music to know what fits in where with musical structure. A book on drumming for you particular genre interest or maybe books or studies on rhythm techniques would be a good start -and don't forget that music is all around you, listen to your favourite tracks and break the drums down, work out what makes it work and try to program stuff like that to start with. Programming drums is just playing them without necessarily having the coordination skills. >

All good advice but for me I know my limitations and wasting time trying to write sub-standard drum tracks is not my idea of either fun or being productive. Wether it's just a rough guide track or much more I contact one of a number of guys I know (and there are lots out there) who will play what you want on a midi kit and send back the midi file. You would be surprised not only how good the results are but how quick, easy and inexpensive this can be (eg $30 to $50 AUS). Nothing beats a real drummer (no pun intended).

Well planetnine has said pretty much word for word what I was going to say, so the only other thing I can offer is to find some drummers that you like and look for videos of them playing on YouTube - it's surprising how much you can learn just by watching a drummers hands and seeing what he is playing at the same time as hearing it. There's no real shortcut here other than using premade grooves, it's basically learning a new instrument.

I made three lessons over on Home Recording forums that got really positive reception. I'm a drummer of 16 years, and I can program some very convincing, realistic drum tracks utilizing my experience on the instrument. I programmed the drums on my latest album from Algarothsyum, if you want to hear (see signature below). Here are the lesson threads: I wanted to make more but I just got sidetracked by life and stuff. It's hard to find time to do this, but I do want to continue the lessons. At any rate, check them out. No video tutorials here, but there are plenty of images.

Take a look at JamStix 3. . Almost as good as a real drummer.

You might look at my "Instant Drum Pattern" MIDI Files. Once commercial, they are now a free download. I do not have intros as such, but do have fills. There are three versions in one zip file, both type 0 and 1 MIDI files and mapped for General MIDI. I still use the them to get started. There are at .