[Connor]

Can't say I've ever done that. I tend to write the drums as soon as I have the idea for the riff, and I usually just play to Nuendo's clicktrack while recording the scratch guitars. :shrug:

I still have hope that the gratuitous shredding and viking imagery will come out ahead! You can do it!

 

[Connor]

Basically I just use a standard beat as a click, same as you do, but instead of beep-boop metronome, I have kick/snare.

Yeah, sometimes I do too because I helps me 'groove' a little more. And I didn't mean to imply that I write drums first or anything. I'm definitely a guitar player first. I just mean that once I've written that awesome riff, I like to hear how badass it'll sound with some appropriate drums behind it. Then I move on to the next section of the song, so by the end of the song I only need to go back and tweak the drums, rather than having nothing but straight 4/4 kick-snare stuff that drives you insane.

 

[Connor]

:agreed: Guitarists who are proficient drummers have it made when it comes to this shit. Drums take me FOR FUCKING EVER because not only am I not a drummer, but no matter how good I am with the software, I just think like a guitarist, so I write shitty drum lines.

It comes with practice. I find myself paying much more attention to the drums in music now that I'm programming them myself rather often. When I first started I barely knew where to put the snare, let alone when/how to program a decent fill. :lol: I like to think I've improved quite a bit since then.