Hello,
I am not a seasoned musician, I play a little guitar and have never been serious about even that. I have recently been playing with Ardour for mixing and mastering and I can lay down all instruments that I want, except one, drums. I have never played drums and never really paid attention to drums in music unless we are talking 40 years ago in band class. My question is, is there a formula for a beginner to use to make a half decent drum beat in my tracks? Should I put a kick at the beginning of every measure and a snare in between each kick? I have done that and it is very boring but works, so would like to know if there is a formula or some sort of drum pattern, like a pentatonic scale for guitar, that works for almost everything.
Not trying to boil the ocean, and am not opposed to reading and watching instruction videos, which I have been doing, but just not finding patterns that work for 80% of all tracks. I thought I would ask the experts on here for some help and maybe some good tips that I am not aware of since I have never been a drummer.
Thanks for any tips/help/docs,
Jon