EZDrummer 3's Song Creator Advanced Series 2 of 3 Toontrack

[@ShootieSchool]

Free Midi pack giveaway until August 9th here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqmWnqSQep6nsMU

[@JohnLasValleys]

Once again. Great job. Thank you some much for your time and dedication.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for commenting on my videos Jean. It helps out a lot!

[@TomsMusicLab]

Summer school with Shootie - way better than regular school...

[@ShootieSchool]

Ha!! I love it!

[@lueotw]

Wow! Yours teachings are precise and well arranged! And I love your patience to step-by-step explaining your mouse move!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for saying, Leonard!

[@nikotime1892]

Big thank you - very helpful. Just purchased EZ3 looking forward to getting into it. You have a great manner in the way you offer and teach. Thks again.

[@ShootieSchool]

Welcome to EZD3! Make sure you subscribed.

[@brianherbert9608]

Fantastic help Sean - 46 years on I struggle to keep up with software developments, but with tutorials like yours it's a pleasure, not a struggle. I particularly like your blend of operational explanation, coupled with your excellent personal experience tips - great job. I've subscribed!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, what a great comment! Welcome, Brian.

[@parislol5000]

I love your style of teaching. Your preparation before you shoot a video is clear, and it pays off well. Thanks for your videos!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for saying!

[@DJLUSH]

these videos rock btw! thank you so much for doing this.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thanks for saying!

[@HarleyBob957]

Wow…this tutorial nailed some questions I had..thanks. Your EZ Drummer3 tutorials are the best available..

[@ShootieSchool]

Harley!!

[@steve_one]

Some valuable theory added to song creation here 🙂Thanks 👍

[@ShootieSchool]

Great to hear, Baz!

[@ShiningHourPop]

Excellent tutorial

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Shining!

[@jasonbaillie]

Yeah awesome 👌 well explained and detailed. Legend. Keen for number 2 🙌

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Jason!

[@jajsound]

Replace Selected Blocks on Tracks @ 6:50 ~~~ Awesome Tip/Trick ! Thank You !

[@ShootieSchool]

You go it!

[@mjmproductions8327]

Always a great tutorial Thanks again Sean 🤘🤘

[@ShootieSchool]

You got it!

[@markbeeson5674]

Thanks for doing these videos. Your EZ 2 Series was an amazing resource for learning EZ Drummer.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for saying, Mark. And welcome back!!

[@jeffeast7983]

So glad to find your channel :) Great stuff!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Jeff and welcome!

[@arthurmee]

Only just found you channel. I'm subscribing because you have a great facility for clear, crisp style of communicating your message and your detailed knowledge of the software. You've certainly helped me get to grips with EZDrummer 3. Many thanks.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for taking the time to say, Arthur!

[@brentwheeler2087]

Great tutorial Shootie..... this material is very full and there is a large amount of info here. Expect to watch it plenty !!! One thing its hard to put in a tutorial is the fact that once inside (say) the grid editor it is actually pretty easy to "feel" your way around, things fall into place and make sense - so don't be put off. This tutorial is a brilliant reference. I have zero false modesty in coming back and back to this material.... it really pays dividends.

[@ShootieSchool]

I love it when you take the time to provide feedback, Brent. Thank you for commenting!

[@JohnLasValleys]

I come back to it as well!!

[@Rndhld]

veryyyy veryy good content, not just as a ezd tuto, but as a song arrangement pespective. Thank you.

[@ShootieSchool]

You got it! Thanks for commenting!

[@JoeMurphysGuitarlessons]

Thanks for these lessons Shawn, they are really helping me.

[@ShootieSchool]

I really appreciate the feedback, it encourages me. Thanks, Joe!

[@conchosewing]

thank you very much for this video! now I know what im doing when I write melodic death metal drums for my guitar riffs \m/

[@ShootieSchool]

Awesome!

[@EanGidman]

Another excellent vid. Thanks Shawn. You deserve much more attention (clicks) than you are getting at the moment and I‘m sure it will come.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Ean! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@danbroussard8714]

Awesome, Sean! Truthfully, I can nicely understand all you did yet I'll have to listen to this a few times to really grasp the techniques to use them. Thanks much!!

[@ShootieSchool]

Certainly, take your time.

[@craigberry4051]

Thanks mate. Your videos have been very helpful!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for saying, Craig!

[@aim.1]

Great info. Thanks for sharing!

[@ShootieSchool]

You got it, thanks for commenting!

[@ankle_burn]

just discovered your stuff man. you're a lifesaver and such a lovely presence to learn from.

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, PJ and welcome!

[@boogybass]

Like always, you give a bunch of cool tips about how to make this program work to your advantage. Can’t think of a better place to learn more about EZDrummer!

[@ShootieSchool]

You're music to my ears, Ron. Cheers!

[@Zilverwolv]

Great lessons Sir! Thank you !!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you for the feedback, Frank!

[@bigrigeddie]

Excellent Shawn!!! One great Greek philosopher once said “The ability to follow instructions is a sign of intelligence “ Think I’ll watch a couple more times lol.

[@ShootieSchool]

HA!!! Thank you, Edgar!

[@BenHaskinsMusic]

Wicked tutorial! Thanks man!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Ben!

[@dresdensinn6669]

Some helpful hints, tips, and tricks. All my transitions were pretty good to start with, the only things I did was add a fill after the bridge and ramped up the second chorus at the end by adding some ride. I find I prefer to add individual drums/cymbals by creating a second instance of EZD3 in my DAW and actually play/record the kit in real time rather than using the Grid Editor. I also wrote/recorded all the guitar/bass parts while waiting on this 2nd video. After the 3rd video I'll upload the song here on KZbin so you can hear what WE created. It's coming out very Amon Amarth like so far. All this is very new to me and I'm learning as I go, I'm just a simple guitar/bass player : )'

[@ShootieSchool]

That's an interesting way to overdub. Sometimes I literally tap in a free-time single hit as well for a more human feel. Dresden, so happy you're following along. Do post back about your progress!

[@daveflett8643]

These videos are great Shawn. Thanks. Can you tell me how to delete saved projects in EZ3

[@ShootieSchool]

I think you have to be more specific. You're commenting on the Song Creator video, do you mean delete an Arrangement? Right clicking it in the User Arrangement list will give you that option. A EZD3 project is something you save to your Hard Drive, so you would simply locate it and delete it off of your computer.

[@daveflett8643]

@@ShootieSchool Thanks for your help👍

[@jerryweber1768]

Great vid

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Jerry!

[@DJLUSH]

5:34 i think by placing a kick on the 1st beat like that joins the two automatically. it does this in Ableton and Protools as well.

[@diegoalejo15]

you are a master

[@ShootieSchool]

I'll take it!

[@midkiffjd]

So Awesome

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Jack!!

[@ivano2480]

Greeting! I would really like to help your channel but unfortunately I have no money. Your video tutorials are great and of course I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I wish you much success in your future work and in life in general!

[@ShootieSchool]

Ivan, thank you so much for taking the time to comment. You can help my channel out big time by simply commenting on my videos that you like. That would be a huge help for me. I'm glad you're getting something out of my videos, thanks again!!

[@TheBearDenStudios]

Great videos! I want to be able to load in a full song on guitar/bass into the timeline and build drums around the guitar/bass but can't figure out how to do that. Does this program assume you write the drums first for a song or is there something I am missing? Sorry for the stupid question.

[@ShootieSchool]

That’s case sensitive. If you want to use the song creator, yes more so. Here’s a completely different method here if you haven’t seen it yet.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqmWnqSQep6nsMU

[@DigitalCollision]

I can't get an answer in Toontrack's forum, and haven't found the answer in the manual. But, maybe posting it here might work ... When I drag blocks from EZD3 to SD3, does it KEEP humanization? I like starting/writing tracks in EZ, but finish them in Superior. I can't quite tell if it keeps, or drops, the humanization.

[@ShootieSchool]

Yes.

[@MidoEmero]

Thanks for the video

[@ShootieSchool]

You got it!

[@johnnorland5177]

Help with 3 drum loop problems? Problem 1 It takes way too long to preview the loops. Twenty years ago, when I used an Alesis SR 16, I could scroll through the patterns extremely quickly until I found a basic pattern that would work for the piece I was doing. The downside, of course, was that after finding that beat, programming the song was crazy arduous, and the sounds weren’t as good as modern drum loops. So now, I love working with drum loops, but I hate wading through them to find one to start. I use Ableton as my DAW. And moving the blocks around works great for me. So what I need is a set up where I can set the BPM, then, extremely quickly, preview the main loop/beat from each folder/set of loops in all my drum loops, kind of like pushing the buttons on one of those old organs with the eight cheesy beats, except that this software would have 200 instead of eight choices. (In other words, opening each folder, then opening each file in QuickTime and pressing play is way way way too slow.) Problem 2 I often need a really straight beat, like just bass drum on one and three and just snare on two and four. Often the loops contain a little funky stutter step with the kick which doesn’t work with the cadence of the song. Do you know of packages that include a straight beat with each set? Problem 3 I usually need two types of loop, either a jazz/swing loop, or a pop/rock loop except that I need the sound to be very rootsy, maybe with brushes. The last couple of things I bought were obviously hard rock drummers just using brushes. What’s out there that fits the bill?

[@ShootieSchool]

If your new to EZ, then here are some solutions. They all can be found in the Grooves Tab. So read the Grooves Tab section in the manual or you can check out the EZD2 version of it here... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIatmImhrp6ZhJY 1. Here is how i surf through midi beats: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIrUcpKhoKdsZrs 2. Tap a back beat into Tap2Find, see search results window in Grooves Tab. 3. On Groove's Tab select "Show Webstore Midi" and use Search Filters to find what you need that you do not yet own. Review these answers in order and they should make sense.

[@johnnorland5177]

@@ShootieSchool THANKS!! That really helped--'zactly what I was lookin for.

[@ShootieSchool]

@@johnnorland5177 Good to hear!

[@rodd1000]

Really enjoying your tutorials, thank you. This level of editing is far more intuitive than Logics drummer. Question, is there any way to hear the music with the beats whilst editing in EZ3? Or do you have to import to your daw, then send it back in to EZ to adjust things? Thanks

[@leopoldbluesky]

If you have EZDrummer as an instrument track in your DAW, then yes you can just play the song from your DAW and you will hear what you have programmed in EZDrummer instantly with the music. In previous versions after you had built up a song, if you wanted to fine-tune some of the beats you would have to drag the parts into your DAW and do your drum editing old-school style in the DAW MIDI editor, then drag it back again (or just leave it on your DAW timeline). But now in EZD3 this makes life so much easier (or is that EZ-er?)

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Karl. Similar to what Leopold said, you use EZD inside of your preferred DAW. Here's a vid that show the process, and even more about routing if you wish to see... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4aykqypp71peNE

[@rodd1000]

@@ShootieSchool That’s brilliant, I tried a demo of a much older version a few years back but found it annoying you couldn’t do it without sending beats to the daw. Didn’t know if there was a ‘work around’ at the time. Good to know they’ve expanded on this in Ezd3, makes it much more flexible and easier to flesh out the beats. Thanks for the video, I’ll take a look. 👍

[@DreamsongsProductions]

How do you shorten the measures of a file that you're dragging from any of the programs or packs onto a shorter space. IOW, when I'm dragging a beat into a 2 or 3 measure part it gives me an 8 measure sample that erases everything before and after. I just want to fit a bigger sample into a smaller space as I'm dragging it. I can't figure it out...

[@ShootieSchool]

If it overlaps so much that it covers block on your Songtrack so you can peel it back, you should drag it to a blank spot in the song track edit the length there before bringing it where you need it. A faster idea would be to use a second song track only for quick edits like this.

[@DreamsongsProductions]

@@ShootieSchool That's what I've been doing, putting it to the end of the song in an empty slot then editing and putting back in the smaller space. But I thought there was a faster way as you drag it so that the software detects the smaller space and does it automatically. Maybe it's something for Toontrack to work on next...

[@ShootieSchool]

@DreamsongsProductions That’s the best I have for you. If something comes up do come back and share though.

[@robmlisanti]

👍😎 excellent

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you, Rob!!!!

[@jfloyd2919]

🤘

[@ShootieSchool]

[@veblen2]

Thanks!

[@ShootieSchool]

Thank you so much for the support, veblen!

[@williamshaneblyth]

Yeah baby ... not! It's song creator! not baby creator! Shawn? 👍😉☺️❤️

[@ShootieSchool]

Your phone typing is so funny sometimes!

[@williamshaneblyth]

@@ShootieSchool I know hehe amazing what a few dots and a ! Does to the meaning

[@ShootieSchool]

@@williamshaneblyth You edited all of the fun out of it... booo!!!!

[@Phantommxr]

Hopefully you washed that shirt! Great Video!!

[@williamshaneblyth]

He bought a box of 100

[@ShootieSchool]

I was hoping nobody would notice!!!. This is the way

[@leopoldbluesky]

It's for continuity purposes, of course!

[@williamshaneblyth]

I think you have a drummers brain and because of that I am assuming you naturally hear in your head a lot of these edits you did in here. My brain learns from your editing ideas but it's not something that comes naturally it seems therefore that this is almost automatic for you. I feel like it might be similar to like when I am playing keys I instinctively know what fits and needs editing and would improve things. It's like a second language you are not that familiar with. You stumble about alot unlike , to you , your first language called drums and mine being keys. That's my rambling though I wonder if others feel a bit like this?

[@ShootieSchool]

I'm glad you think that after watching this. I'm a little worried that this is too basic, but I don't want to do super advanced editing this early in the series. I'm hoping this will be the right time for this style of editing. We shall see. The next video I think you'll like whether you'll utilize it or not, some detail stuff. Thanks for the comment Shane, as always!!

[@damirromanik1615]

Love the ramble but as a newbie and a very very average drummer I want to hear the audio track I am creating to so why can’t we load an audio file and create to it, it’s most important , those intricate facilities that waste a lot of time are fine for tinkerers I just want to quickly create a decent drum track to my backing song and get on stage with it this month not next year, love your dedication and to the point videos. Keep up the good work and think of us non drummers when creating them.🥁

[@ShootieSchool]

@@damirromanik1615 Thank you, Damir. This is not easy to address because you need a DAW as I bet you already know. And to make EZD control a DAW doesn't work, plugins just don't have those types of permissions. So we must juggle the DAW and EZ to make something happen with playback sync/loop and so on. The best bet is to pressure Toontrack to do this in standalone mode until DAW/Plugin workflows get better. What DAW do you use, if any?

[@damirromanik1615]

@@ShootieSchool I use Logic Pro x and it just does the absolute minimum with EZD3. I can’t drag and drop, I can’t easily resize plug-in although toontrack says you can, syncing between the two is crap you can’t run both from EZD3 as expected so you have to continually bounce between the two as you want to work in EZD3 but you have to exit to play both in sync and the looping is all different in all windows so nothing automatically gets setup you have to continually be setting up loop points I could go on and on , yet I love the sounds and the general conceit of EZD3 it just isn’t put together to create a fast workflow. All I need is to create a drum track behind an audio song track that either has no drums or I am using this track to create my drums then I play all other instruments to recreate this audio track my way and I use this recreation as my backing track in my solo performances. It’s a crying shame to why EZD3 has been created in such a limited way that forces you to work in a very time consuming way. I am just going to use it as a basic sound module and perhaps use band master to just give me a very basic beat throughout the whole song and just touch it up in the DAW, this is time consuming, the other option is I just put up with its lame interface and learn its confusing logic and suck it up.I will get faster at it once I use it more but it is so close to being a very powerful simple tool it is heart breaking.

[@ShootieSchool]

@@damirromanik1615 I understand your frustration, but what programs are operating in the fashion that you're hoping for? I think you should dive in if you don't have an obvious option. I wanted to know which DAW because you've inspired a quick DAW video idea. I'm not a Logic guy but I own it, I'll crack it open soon and maybe get you some feedback, not on a solution, but just best practices or something.