[hardcoredrummer]

Well if the song doesn’t need more than 1 marker for guitar to be synced, then adding drums doesn’t need anything more than what you already have ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

thanks.. Im curious to see this work out… After charting drums only and knowing timing can be slightly off so multiple tempo markers are required. doing drums to one consistent marker should be interesting to see how it comes out… Just seems odd when you compare a full band chart to a guitar only chart the difference in markers… Chart drums first and you have a ton of markers, chart guitar first and just one…

[Shroud]

thanks.. Im curious to see this work out… After charting drums only and knowing timing can be slightly off so multiple tempo markers are required. doing drums to one consistent marker should be interesting to see how it comes out… Just seems odd when you compare a full band chart to a guitar only chart the difference in markers… Chart drums first and you have a ton of markers, chart guitar first and just one…

 

Well I am not 100% sure that my own method for charting tempo mapping is fine (at least to me the results seem ok) but the way I see it the tempo map has nothing to do with which instruments you want to chart. I make the tempo map before anything else. I put typically one marker per measure (bar), on the first beat. I look at the audio wave in Reaper to see where the peaks are, and while those peaks are typically caused by the drums being hit, you would need to look at those peaks even if you were not charting drums at all, because ALL instruments are being played at the same tempo.

[Farottone]

 

Well I am not 100% sure that my own method for charting tempo mapping is fine (at least to me the results seem ok) but the way I see it the tempo map has nothing to do with which instruments you want to chart. I make the tempo map before anything else. I put typically one marker per measure (bar), on the first beat. I look at the audio wave in Reaper to see where the peaks are, and while those peaks are typically caused by the drums being hit, you would need to look at those peaks even if you were not charting drums at all, because ALL instruments are being played at the same tempo.

 

Just to underscore the good point made, you don’t have to author drums to use drums for tempo mapping purposes. In fact, you should always use them, even if you’re not authoring them.

 

[hardcoredrummer]

 

Well I am not 100% sure that my own method for charting tempo mapping is fine (at least to me the results seem ok) but the way I see it the tempo map has nothing to do with which instruments you want to chart. I make the tempo map before anything else. I put typically one marker per measure (bar), on the first beat. I look at the audio wave in Reaper to see where the peaks are, and while those peaks are typically caused by the drums being hit, you would need to look at those peaks even if you were not charting drums at all, because ALL instruments are being played at the same tempo.

yes this makes sense. this is also more than one marker at the start. which almost isn’t even a marker if you just go in at the start and type the bpm from a website. can anyone else ring in here if i can legitimately add drums to someones custom that has a straight line tempo map of a constant bpm. this wouldn’t be drum machines either with perfect timing…

 

thing is going over the authoring tutorial i don’t recall it ever saying to use the drums to chart a tempo map even if you are just doing guitar. i’m referring to the pdf. of course pskage and ruby did with their videos but one could think they did that cause drums were implied to be easier to map…

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