Why You Should Always Record w/ Drummer in Logic Pro

[@Mr.X.-Riffs]

Thanks for the help! 😀

[@andrew6889-p5c]

I use drummer a lot. You make a good point. But I would say that drummer colors what I play a lot. Suddenly the rhythm I had in a chord progression is warped to fit the robot drummer. When it aligns well, it’s great. But when it doesn’t it changes what I play and often renders the idea terrible.

[@StratsRUs]

I end up going in bar by bar or two bars and edit it accordingly.But I understand this video's for the immediate approach.

[@cbrooks0905]

Yep! That’s why I make custom click tracks with midi. You can actually tap out whatever you want on your keyboard, quantize it, and boom, you have a melodic click track that doesn’t screw up your groove.

[@budgetkeyboardist]

This is a great point. Lately I go in and set up a basic bass drum + snare pattern that matches what I want to record, and that's what I use.

[@scottm8285]

This. Especially for bass. But I do have a hard time playing to a click for some reason, and if I’m having too many issues I’ll resort to this. Usually I’ll try to do a guitar part to click and create a drummer region that follows it for when I do my bass part.

[@GS-uy4xo]

@@cbrooks0905 Spend a couple minutes getting a much better feel for the initial attempt -- Great idea!

[@kennethochoa7550]

great lesson I hope the same controls are in garage band

[@2112ZOZ]

Excellent video. I can't believe I haven't yet thought of doing this myself. I usually start with solo piano and am always just using the click. A nice little beat is SO much easier. Thanks for this.

[@jason-ogle]

You're a great teacher. Just got Logic Pro and looking forward to learning a lot from you. Thank you!

Def Chris is a great teacher! He's been doing this for years... I don't do music anything like what he's into, but still I've learned TONS of helpful techniques. Just wanted to encourage you to go back thru his extensive collection of vids and soak it in. Have fun with music!

[@jason-ogle]

Appreciate the encouragement! 👊

[@Pidvysotskyi_Oleksandr]

The my way that I use to record guitar with drummer is: 1. Define the tempo of new riff and set up on project. 2. Play and record the riff just with the metronome (could be not ideal) 3. Add the drummer and set up main beat to follow my riff 4. Record the final take with drummer filing accents

[@downbeat78]

Hi Chris - first, big thanks for all the help you so nicely provide for Logic Pro users. You're my number one go to guy for help. I'm a drummer and I 100% agree with you. I use Drummer all the time. A great tool for recording/rehearsing, etc... when I'm done with my ideas, I often go back and record drums "live". Have a great 2025.

[@atikonium]

You're a fucking pro man you still killed it when recording without a metronome

[@reedengle6134]

I’m not sure how this idea only occurred to me a few months ago. It’s making recording ideas a lot more fun.

[@matthewneedham2125]

Great video, inspiring, as always, no complaints here, anything to make things more simple and streamline is great information

[@brutallyremastered4255]

What a great lesson. Flourishes and decorations - I don't want Neil Peart every day.

[@alanharrison6555]

really helpful thank u

[@nicennice]

Another well put together video. Excellent.

[@Gmarthe]

I preferred the old grid for complexity/intensity rather than the new sliders. I felt it was easier to dial something in.

[@AlternativeKava]

100%

yep on that! Ain't that just what "they" do though?! Mess with what works-if they don't, then they're out of a job!

[@sozza23]

Another great informative video, thanks Chris.

[@believe-in-righteousness]

Thanks this is exactly what i had in mind. Very helpful

[@guitarwalljams]

This is a great video with tons of value.

[@trixdropd]

I guess I've been recording with a click for a long time, because i can totally vibe and groove to a click. I don't worry about getting out of time. It keeps me in time.

[@michaelbutler2312]

great one, chris! i agree, you want to record with a band!

[@Gibboncore]

A great Idea, I usually just just create a basic midi with kick and snare to start, never thought about using drummer as the base.

[@ataylortca]

Absolutely agree. Long been doing this. A click track is incredibly difficult to stay in time with. Only a single click per beat is very limited information. And playing more subdivisions isn’t really helpful, maybe because of the limitation in tones and depth? A whole lot more to grab onto with a full kit playing.

[@onairmastering]

Hell yeah, I found drummer BETTER than a metronome!

[@ebeyslough]

Great video. I use Drummer on every track to start. Another commenter rightly says that it does color what you play, but that’s something to be mindful of in songwriting to stay true to your original sound. Using Drummer shouldn’t be controversial as it is a tool for composing.

[@AgolfTwittler]

Another reason to use Drummer over a Metronome is it signals the longer cycle of 8, 16, and 32

[@brajoco219]

Great suggestion 👌 thanks 🤓

[@edwardmacnab354]

where is the preset saved to ?

[@academyofrock]

Brilliant thank you Chris

[@RogerioValgode]

Great idea! 🙌

[@Bittamin]

We need the drummer to learn how to chop an Amen Break 😂

[@geoffwales8646]

Shaping the Drummer is a lot easier now. I agree they're all way overplayed. What we need is a custom or personalised drummer, with a library of parts the user creates. Let's say you create a great backing track that can be used as a starting groove for many songs. Sure, you could set up a template, but then you're no longer working with inspired ideas made in the moment.

[@ScreamieBirds]

I do this. If you want a specific rhythm, you can program drummer manually.

[@geoffwales8646]

I downloaded the free template. I don't really understand how to use it. I can see how it can provide a useful tutorial for the many functions of Logic. How does a song end up in the template based production?

[@MrPukerman]

does anybody have this problem? so when I record with plugin using input monitoring through guitar rig for example, when I playback what I have recorded its faster^again FASTER(!) than it should be^its rushing for couple of milliseconds

[@Rasenschneider]

I prefer playing free and later match the tempo of Logic to the music. Although we record not 2 bars but the whole session in one take, making music and not constructing music. I use Logic mostly for mixing. Constructing music for myself is a very lonely task.

[@slavaborman5106]

Hi. Drummer lags behind in logic by 1/16. How to fix?

[@NominalTopic]

What if I’m a drummer?

[@SteveKozak36]

I am not sure why but when I use Logic Pro drummer then close the session go back to it the next day everything is way out of sync. I loved Logic drummer but it was been very frustrating. It never did this in the past. So now I use Studio One with XLN or ToonTrack stuff. If anyone has advice on this please let me know. Thank you for the great video!

[@MrPhotonjockey]

Grew up playing with a live drummer (my brother) and I absolutely cannot record to a metronome. I can’t even hear the darn click.

[@denniskielton2447]

Lemme make this REAL simple to anyone who is scared of AI drums for this purpose. I'm a full time guitar teacher, have been for 15 years now. And out of the hundreds of times I've done it, getting a student to play a pentatonic scale along with a metronome is VERY hard. The only rhythmic info you have is a single click, that's like playing with a band when the drummer only hit's the hi hat with her variation. Bring in a drummer track, I can customize it for style and student, and within 30 seconds I have a drum beat for us to play along to, complete with fills to let you know when the restart comes, down beat up beats and back beats and cymbal splashes to show where the emphasis should be and where to land your root notes. plus, who in real life plays with a metronome for anything other than practice? "drummer" is juts like a metronome on steroids. You can easily achieve better feel to drums, than a met. Take metal guitar scratch tracks for example. You record you r guitars to a metronome, just so the drummer has something to monitor while recording, but then you need to re track those guitars to the real drums to get the feel right. So metronomes, can't really teach you that. in fact I think most people are better off not using one at all and developing their own sense of timing instead of leaning on audible references. That's how I did it as a kid, and now people keep telling me "I have such good feel and rhythm." & I never even heard of practicing scales to a metronome until like 5 years ago haha. P.s. I'm not a jazz drummer, but love playing jazz, so using logics drummer is great for getting a good starting point. And for extreme metal it's totally worthless haha so I wouldn't call it cheating at all, unless you're a drummer. We used to need to hire drummers or find friends and maybe pay them. And it's REALLY hard to find a drummer that isn't already like, quintuple booked out for the next year. So no shame, starting out with Drummer then editing to taste and changing the samples to something more realistic. I LOVE drummer. This is one example of an acceptable use of AI, especially if you're using it to save time during guitar lessons for basic beats that are just meant to be a better metronome. Another P.s.- instead of just looping random sounds to jam alone, record those loops to a drummer track, and instantly 10x your level of fun lol. It's like having a friend to play with who doesn't suck. You can even lay the song out, using arrangement, and the drummer will automatically create different verses, choruses, intro's, interludes, whatever. Try it out, set up a whole song in arrangement and then create drummer regions for each section. It works amazingly well.

[@seanhollandcanada]

I do this, but with Superior Drummer 3, because it is ..... superior.

[@amaratoure7208]

I'm a 😢 begging to logic pro software developer system let them try to improve ghost note on the piano in logic just like if your FL Studio

[@planetmullins]

this kind of tutorial is great for garage band level folks. i would never use drummer for an actual production.

[@MrPhotonjockey]

Well goodie for you.

[@fusionpete333]

Once you are not in 4/4 & the TS is changing every bar, this definitely will not work

[@EmanuelHaxeySalamat-e4j]

But drummer dont play SouCous, Cadence Lypso, Bouyon, Quadrill or Calypso

or jazz.... wtf....

[@ryanedwardmusic]

No thanks

[@Hegstuffing]

Please, unbutton that top button or wear a tie. It looks ridiculous, lol. I feel like I'm choking just watching you lol. Love your style of instruction! Always VERY nicely done.

[@gitpho]

Let dapper man be dapper! It’s okay-I’m jealous too 😋 (Just messing with you-cheers!)

[@erniethefork]

@@gitpho OK, lol.

[@MrPhotonjockey]

Could be worse. He could be wearing a Nehru jacket 😁

[@morbidmanmusic]

always? what click bait is this?