Examples of Drum Machine and Live Drums on Same Track

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Examples of Drum Machine and Live Drums on Same Track

Post by rhythmjones » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:24 pm

Hello,

I'm starting a new music project with a friend of mine and I want to blend drum machine with live drums.

Does anyone have any examples of songs that do this?

Thanks!
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Post by Telliot » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:41 pm

There are tons of examples, but off the top of my head:

Blondie - Heart of Glass
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
XTC- That's Really Super, Supergirl
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.

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Post by rhythmjones » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:43 pm

Awesome! I know a lot of modern examples so getting some older stuff was just what I wanted.

Thanks!
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Post by Telliot » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:45 pm

The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.

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Post by Addy Bart » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:53 pm

A friend of mine's band (Moon Relay) use drum machine with live drums (the drummer handles both roles)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2JmnUM1C4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Holy Fuck is another band that do it well.

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Post by NoiseNoiseNoise » Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:52 am

Stickmen (Tony Levin's band) use drums & drum machine. The drummer triggers the loops needed via a pad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wQupFvcoE
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Post by Whiny Minotaur » Sat Sep 02, 2017 11:55 pm

Can't post links atm, but Radiohead does this on some of their live songs, like Idioteque and Bloom.
soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow

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Post by OffYourFace » Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:40 pm

The War On Drugs does this a lot. Listen to the song An Ocean Between The Waves. It starts out with an old Roland TR-707 and then real drums come in after a bit.
I believe there's an Oberheim DMX on the first song on the newest album... Anyway, Adam does this a lot.

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Post by eggwheat » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:57 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9qk2LSgpc

Roland CR-78 with me on drums on the top :)

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Post by daemon » Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:52 am

Plus Minus (Versus side project) has done this a few times. This is my favorite example:
Plus Minus - I've Been Lost

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Post by Marc » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:27 am

Hi RhythmJones - early Simple Minds before they became a bag of shite did some cool stuff with a CR-78, 808 and live drums. If you trust me not to make your ears forever damaged listen to Empires and Dance and Sister Feelings Call. They were prior to '83 quite brilliant and then they became gradually more terrible.

Typically drum machines are used during intros before the live drummer kicks in but sometimes there is electronic percussion lower in the mix.

I made an album with a few tracks doing this and can give you a tip... If you have drum machine playing higher in the mix with the live drummer and they share snare and kik hits is likely that you will get some flamming due to the drummer having feel and the machine quantized to the grid. I overcame this by making a quantise template from the drummers playing and imposing it on the midi of the drum machine. That way the drum machine matches the feel of the drummer and they lock in perfectly. It sounds really cool when you do this.

I did this proper old school using Recycle but I think you can do it on audio files in your DAW now.

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Post by Beefheart » Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:25 am

Surprised no one has mentioned Trans Am. They do it and do it well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... I2k4S7i__0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by dryjoy » Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:10 am

First post on here in quite a few years.

Anyway, here's one - gotta be one of the first to combine drum machine and live drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLweeUk8GE

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Post by nucleardonut » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:59 am

The Fall did this rather humorously:

https://youtu.be/o8fS9_Cpuow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Turn that blimey bloody Space Invader off!"

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Re: Examples of Drum Machine and Live Drums on Same Track

Post by julius2790 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:54 pm

I'm pretty sure Butch Vig put drum samples on all of Nirvana's Nevermind album.

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