So I managed to get out of my funk and lay down a drum track using some drum replacement software. Yep, that's right. Fake drums.
For someone without the budget to hire a session drummer and go into the studio, fake drums are the next best thing. Drum machines/samples have come a long way since the early 1980s when they were abhorred by everyone and their guitarist, including me. But these nice new sounds do bring up a kind of musical conundrum. Is the song as authentic if acoustic style sounds were actually produced by a computer?
As an artist who tries to remain as authentic as possible, I struggle with the concept of using pre-recorded drum sounds. For some reason, I think there's a difference between listening to something like Eraser by Thom Yorke, where you know the majority of the sounds are electronic, then if you found out that all the sounds on Metallica's latest album weren't played by Lars, but were programmed into a computer by a monkey with glasses. I mean, acoustic drums are supposed to be played by drummers, aren't they?
At any rate, until I find somebody willing to drum for free, who has a studio to record said drumming in, I'm left with these pre-recorded sounds. Let's see if we can get something good out of them, shall we?
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