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Alta Syntha, on 20 March 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

Agreed. When you move up into the semi-professional or even professional category, i think it's like an elite athelete. You have to continue the regular "workout" so you maintain your level of technical ability at that high benchmark. If you didn't pick up the guitar or instrument for 6 or so months, you would notice that when you eventually did again, you would have to work quite hard to get back up to that level of playing where you were with regular and consistent practice.

rogers_barton, on 21 March 2012 - 12:24 AM, said:

Haha! Nice and simple!


For me it's write the second album for one of my bands and track it during the second half of the year. I am also involved in some other recording projects, so i'm always busy writing with them. Maybe another video clip for my band will end up on the agenda during the year sometime too...hehehe

I think in both there tend to be a lot of sample replacement used. This is generally speaking of course. In similar ways that Hip Hop uses sample beats with sampled kicks, snares, etc. Heavy Metal will do the same. However, usually they will get a drummer to play the beat or song and add samples within the mix either layering it with the drummers own kit or replacing the hit all together with a new pre-recorded sample. It all depends on the dynamics of the instrument, the sound of the instrument captured and the sound of the room, etc. comes into play.

There are a lot of metal type bands also using fully programmable drum machines on the computer to program their beats. These obviously use samples of pre-recorded drum hits or even full drum kits such as Superior Drummer 2.0 or even Big Fat Drums 2. It all comes down to money, time and what you want your record to sound like. Way too many choices if you ask me! Hahaha! I hope this helps?

Thanks very much for compiling these articles. Much appreciated!