Studio One Song Production | Finding the Perfect Beat in EZ Drummer 3

In this video, I show you how I start off everyone one of my song productions. I first record a guitar track and then find the perfect drum beat using EZ Drummer 3.
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[@MarkLantz65]

I would love to see start-to-finish song ideas. I don't play instruments, I use vsts, but could take the same concept ideas. Thanks, this was my first time watching, a GREAT video!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching and welcome to our family!

[@michaeltablet8577]

This was excellent! Would love to see a whole song from start to finish! Thanks again so very much!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for the feedback

[@Nickyrock1962]

Great video series kickoff uncle Dave, I've been waiting on someone to do this, please do more and show the entire process from idea to tracking, maybe touch on how bands that we all know and love go thru the process too, love your content man, rock on!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

You got it

[@danepaulstewart8464]

I must say - you REALLY know your way around STUDIO 1. Right on, Dave! 👍😎👍

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Well, not really...LOl but thank you

[@vivianmonsanto2834]

Yes!! More videos like this please 🙏🏻

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Noted!

[@scottyj8500]

Yes, definitely more of this!!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Ok, noted! Thank you

[@jayrocknurse5386]

Thanks so much Dave. I will take, watch and Study every video that you offer. You're an excellent teacher. From my Rock n Roll heart to yours, :THANK YOU!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Wow, thanks! Be sure to check out my Studio One training course at www.homerecordingmadeeasy.com/presonus-studio-one-training

[@babeluba007]

Hi Dave, this is really excellent and would love to see more content like this. As a beginner in recording and building a home studio this has immense value for me. Thanks a bunch

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Noted! Thank you

[@orphanmedina5413]

Dave thank you so much for this video! I’m new to Studio One and Ez Drummer 3 yet you make the learning process fun and easy. Much gratitude and I will purchase some of your tutorial videos to expand my learning and production.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great! Welcome to the HRME family!!

[@woodenbeast9337]

Good one Dave. Toon Track is great. A.I. keeps getting better

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks!

[@gersonlarios3043]

Thanks for this is very helpful I would like more of this

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Ok, thanks for the feedback!

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

Very helpful! Thank you, George

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jvarrati]

I too would love to see more, start to finish!! New to studio one going to look into your courses!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

More to come!. If you are new to Studio One, check these out www.homerecordingmadeeasy.com/presonus-studio-one-training

[@johnpower2018]

This is absolutely what I needed to see since I am thinking about buying the EZdrummere plugin. I already have several of your courses.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great. thanks for the support!

[@dario_giovannetti]

Thank you so much Dave. I'm really intrasted in this kind of workflow and I'd like too see something more about it.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Ok, great! Thank you for your feedback!

[@jimgraczyk6991]

Yes more videos like this!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

you got it

[@geobell4106]

Please, keep these Studio One vids coming. I like what Gregor and Joe do, but their instructional vids jump from subject to subject each day. Yours are step-by-step and easy to follow. And that’s why I have several of your courses.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Well, thank you. I am way better than Joe and Gregor! LOL....just kidding, they are amazing at what they do as well

[@RobertPickeringBucketList69]

I agree... Good observation

[@braxal6983]

Dave this is a excellent video. Please continue with this song and show us how you complete the song. I really like where this is going and you are doing a great job.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks braxl! Will do. I am hoping this video does well and people enjoy it. This can unlock an whole new set of videos for this channel. I have never really done any songwriting/production videos maybe this will spark a new set of videos on this channel!

[@18benfica]

@@HomeRecordingMadeEasy YES YES and YES - PLEASE

[@mromag4773]

Thanks, more sessions like this

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Noted! thank you

[@bobbydaleharris]

Great Video Dave. I've been using EZ Drummer 3 since it's inception and I never knew about the "Find" groove menu. I would drive myself nuts trying to remember which groove I was using. Thank you for this video buddy.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

You got it!!

[@user-oldguymusicandpro]

Good stuff, thank you!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Glad you liked it!

[@stevenkaiser3837]

Dave, this one video has done more for me than the hours and days that I have spent trying to learn Studio 1 and EZdrummer 3 to capture inspiration on the fly. Thank you! I would love to see a video that speaks to setting up templates like you have done here so that EZdrummer is ready to go when I need it. I do own a couple of your Studio One beginner guide videos and have not been all the way through those yet, so my questions might be answered there. Thanks again for simple, hands-on explanations that can be quickly implemented. Not a lot of that on youtube. Most youtube videos tend to be absolute newbie or being taught as if they are teaching experienced producers!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Watch the courses you already have instead of watching youtube videos and your questions will be answered....LOL

[@michaeltahoeswanson4836]

Well done, very informative. You have saved me a lot of time figuring out how to audition drums in EZ Drummer dynamically. And your approach makes complete sense. Keep up the great work.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@rolandgutzky2391]

Great video. I have used EZ Drummer 2 and upgraded to EZ Drummer 3 but, I've found them anything but EZ. I am also a Studio One user so, this was perfect for me.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Cool, thanks!

[@michaeladair2592]

Great, informative video... Thanks

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gsbbq4870]

Just got Toon Track. Going to have to watch this a couple of times. Good video!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks you

[@Sswag222]

Excellent video sir.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thank you kindly

[@88keyz]

Would enjoy watching more videos like this ❤🔥❤

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great!

[@garymontagna6593]

Yes I would Love to see start to finish recordings and then next steps like editing Producing & mixing

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

I f you are looking for mixing, I have many courses on my website already you can check out

[@earlteigrob9211]

Excellent!!! Thank You!!!!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

You are welcome!

[@3009arod]

Excellent video, it explains everything you need to understand how EZ drummer works 👍

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great, thanks for watching!

[@mikecess1425]

Excellent starting video for building your ideas in to a song. You should continue this with the tap to find showing how you can tap out a small drum idea to help in the drum beat search for those guitar parts, and using bandmate to analyze your guitar part to find matching grooves in the grooves library. This can showcase how powerful ez drummer is with all the options and tools you can use for composing ideas, and just how ez the process can be. Great service you are providing to all the home recording artist following your channel Dave, wishing you continued success.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Yep! If this video does well and enough people want to see more videos like this, then I will do different vides showing things like you suggest for sure. We will see how this video does first. :)

[@citytonightproductions]

The most important thing I have found in my studio with any song production, any genre. above all else…… getting the right tempo for the song. Every song has its groove where it sits perfect in a pocket, where the instruments meld together and the singer is not rushed or too slow. sometimes even 1 or 2 beats up or down makes all the difference. Taking whatever time it takes to find it is worth it’s weight in gold for those who are starting out with songwriting. It’s often overlooked as it’s not the most exciting thing to do in a studio lol.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Good points.

[@88keyz]

👍🏾

[@RiffMusic1970]

Yep. And try to get the tempo down early on. It can be sped up or slowed down later but it usually leaves artifacts with audio. You’re probably ok with Midi. I tried speeding up audio recently by 4 bpm with cymbals and electric guitar and you can definitely hear the artifacts. Might have to re-record some parts.

[@fridaykr]

I would like more of this kind of stuff, including making a track from start to finish.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevemorgan9626]

More production videos! Thanks.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

On it!

[@burnedclutch]

please more they're excellent

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thank you

[@SmudgeTAC]

Nice job Dave !! Regards Tony

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks Tony

[@Fezzler61]

Yes, I'd like to see more, especially taking a drum, two guitars, and bass track expanded with keys or synth etc. - aka beginner arrangement ideas

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

You got it!

[@TimE_5150]

Dave, there was another KZbin video creator that showed how in EZ Drummer 3 if you set up the audio in your DAW on the 9th measure that the loops in ED3 and the loop in the DAW sync up perfectly. It really works!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

I know all about that video and Shawn over at shootie school! We been in touch. I will show that exact tip in a future video. I did not want to confuse people in the video.

[@DMSProduktions]

Nice 1 Dave! \m/

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks!!

[@musiccreation1198]

Love this type of video...more please! Thanks!! Full song workflow videos would be awesome. Fwiw, I'd especially love to see your approach to using Superior Drummer into Studio One. I'd buy that course in a heartbeat! I keep thinking I want the individual drum tracks in S1 so I can use my fx plugins versus Toontracks fx....no?

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

SD and EZ drummer, the approach would be exactly the same. However, if I do more videos like these I will certainly do one using SD as I have both

[@musiccreation1198]

@@HomeRecordingMadeEasy Thank you!

[@dougmcquain4383]

It's true Dave, you are one of the premier instructors around, In your case, more is better. So please keep on it!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thank you very much

[@TheFendertak]

Absolutely outstanding introduction here to ez drummer 3 and how to firstly begin to lay down a scratch track, very easy to understand and follow along with you, ok that's your straight forward rock groove, but when it comes to country music in 3/4 waltz time is it much the same process or is it a little more tricky

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching!

[@88keyz]

When you got to the drums I use the native instruments drums groves in the komplete standard edition or ujam drum plugins similar process 👍🏾

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Very cool!

[@EobardFerguson]

It makes more sense to me to find your drum groove first, then record your guitar to that. You can always change the groove later.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

We all do things different. Whatever works for you, go for it

[@EobardFerguson]

@@HomeRecordingMadeEasy Absolutely. Some people prefer to do things the awkward backwards hard way.

[@larrycavallucci3258]

Dave, I like your teaching style, and also why I own a number of your courses, and still going through some of them! It's funny----cause I agree with what and how you did this in EZDr3, except I use a different approach in my songwriting, after I write the lyrics and have a melody idea. I have both EZDr 2 and 3, and at times, still use Version 2 instead. I also have EZKeys2. So I start with those two MIDI's, and start with EZKeys, create chord patterns for ALL the parts of the song, and segment them in EZKeys, intro, verse, chorus, etc. But after that, I use BANDMATE instead. I drag an EZKeys section like a Verse into EZDr, and then it creates a handful of samples in sections, Closed HI Hat, and so forth. I just find that even faster and it works for me. I could also instead drag in a Gtr or Bass section into EZDr but prefer using KEYS. I still have Presonus Pro V-5+. I do sometimes go into the Grooves section, to select sections like Intro, Fills, etc. THANKS!

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for checking out the video

[@1OvationFan]

This was a great video! You should do a course like the EQ and Compression Made Easy courses.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Maybe at one point I will do a full featured song production course. Thanks for the feedback

[@HighlandStudios-zg9nt]

I agree, a full featured song production course would be awesome. I've watched EQ and Compression made easy a few times through and they are great. Making my way through Dave's other courses. Just exceptional

[@TheVioletShift]

One quick tip from my workflow and what I do using Superior Drummer 3 in much the same way is that I never drag the MIDI loops into studio one. When I have my full finished production of the midi loops within Superior Drummer 3 finished I simply create an empty MIDI 😮event in Studio One on the Superior Drummer track and transform to audio which then converts all of my drum tracks, which is 16 tracks, to 16 individual drum tracks of audio files within Studio One.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Great tip! But that does not put the kick, sane, hats etc... on separate tracks in the edit screen /timeline as an audio file does it? I thought you needed to do "explode to pitches" in order to do that.

Hello, very successful training, thank you very much...🤟 Is it possible to make a Kontakt any sample similar to this? A video tutorial would be great!✌👏👏👏🙏

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thank you. I'll keep it in mind.

[@frizz2158]

thanks a lot

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

You are most welcome

[@braxal6983]

I like to see this series completed.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Sorry, not going to happen.

[@timmylawlor6821]

what a great channell

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks!

[@marianne7659]

Would love to see more videos like this on song production. I use Logic Pro but I don’t think it matters much

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Noted! Yes, the DAW really does not matter at all. Logic as well as most DAW's do all the same stuff just a little differently.

[@marianne7659]

You did a great job with this video. I didn’t know how to find folders of related beats once I found a beat using bandmate. Does it work using a generated groove?

[@b4time718]

Great stuff, thank you Dave. Found it a bit odd that you needed to hit the transports in SD3 and Studio One simultaneously to put them in sync. Personally i find it tricky to do that and get it exactly right. AD2 has a playback sync button. Once that is engaged, everytime time you hit play in Studio One the selected beat in AD2 plays in perfect sync, adjusting automatically to DAW tempo and transport. I honestly thought SD3 had the same capability but I guess not.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching!

[@88keyz]

Heyyyy I start out similarly lab 5 and komplete control 😂👍🏾 I must be doing something right 😂

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

2 great products!

[@blahdeblah3731]

More of this Uncle Dave

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Ok, thanks for the feedback!!

[@DavidSJ_DAP]

David, don't you use Scaler 2 sometime as a songwriting aid? Adding that in to future videos would be pretty cool...

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

I have used Scaler 2 in the past to come up with chord progression ideas. EZ Keys 2 now has the same sort of features. I can certainly do some future videos on how to use both in a songwriting context

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

Been using Logic's Drummer for 10 years now. I wish they would update it. It's the only Drum instrument that has Smart fills. Snip and get a fill. Turn the dial until you like it. Pull the region back a 16th note... and it does a fill to end right there. Dial in many variations in how busy it is. Hard to believe with all the companies out there... none have done anything like it.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching!

[@mrboogaloo862]

Great video Dave thank you! So is there no way to edit the drums in EZD3's grid editor and have that information transfer to the DAW time line instantly? Or do you always need to work on the pattern then drag it over from the grid editor? Thanks in advance dude 👍

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Not that I know of

[@mrboogaloo862]

Thats a shame. So really if you've got a basic recording with say guitar and vocals with a set song structure, it makes more sense to drag that file into EXD3 and work on it in standalone mode, then just transfer it over to the daw when its done and ready for mixing 🤷‍♂️. Thanks for getting back to me with that Dave 👍

[@danpejril8337]

What are your thoughts on Easy Drummer compared to Addictive Drums? Similar, any major differences separating them? Thanks for the great content.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

no idea. I never used AD.

[@braxal6983]

Dave, did you get a AS78 from Audioscape today? I managed to get one. Looks like they sold out on all 20 in 4 minutes.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

It arrived this afternoon. I have not un-boxed it yet. a Video will come sometime later next week

[@88keyz]

Start with drums first or chords first I need more practice starting with drums first . I usely start with chords first also

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Nice!

[@88keyz]

👍🏾

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Thanks for watching!

[@subramaniamchandrasekar1397]

The days of creating a tune first, then write some lyrics, make beats and chords are over. People start with a beat, some chords and then go on with a tune to fit the beat and chords to create a song that will stay for a week. New generation creativity somehow died. They can't figure out how to make long lasting music. Regards.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Everyone creates differently and that's ok. However YOU create is just as valid as anyone else. Thanks for watching!

[@18benfica]

Awesome video - I agree with @poppym1965 and would love o see a start - to - finish song idea. Maybe continue with this song - and we can follow and do our own and then share it with you.

[@HomeRecordingMadeEasy]

Possibly, we will see.