06 Drums

Create a MIDI::Drummer::Tiny object

Example 1

A steady pulse

Example 2

A backbeat rhythm

Example 3

Making up unique grooves

• Ringo Starr, Tomorrow Never Knows

• Clyde Stubblefield, Cold Sweat

• John Bonham, Fool in the Rain

• Frank Zappa, The Black Page

Algorithmic drums

• With combinatorial sequences from Music::CreatingRhythms like,

  • euclidean-beats
  • or the program patterns
  • and its cousin, figured-syncopation

• Quasi-random drum lines, anyone?

Selecting a random groove

• From 16,777,216 possibilities: random-beat