u/The-Wolf-Bandit

How does one create drums, when you are terrible at drums?

Hello!

So I've been wanting to get into recording my own covers. I'm by no means a "great" player but I think it'd be fun. I can play guitar, bass, a bit of piano (Which by proxy means I'm halfway decent with most anything else that would require a midi input to play), however I absolutely suck on drums.

I've never been real good at drums. I tried bucket drumming in high school and that was a major disaster lol. I got as far as simple beats, but once you get me out of 4/4 I am so lost it's not even funny. It doesn't help that the drums in the song I wanna cover the most, Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron, are hard-ish for me to hear completely. Every time I think I got it somewhat right, I am off by a milisecond or so and it throws everything off.

It doesn't have to be a 1 to 1 recreation, but I would at least like it to be the same timing.

For reference, my equipment is limited but here: DAW (Bandlab and Garageband mostly), Audio Interface (Volt 2 w/ 2 inputs), on Mac mini.

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u/The-Wolf-Bandit — 14 hours ago