How to Order Online a Drum Part for a Song
Whether you are a composer, songwriter, or music producer, you can hire me to record a drum part created for you or played from sheet music you provide.
Please contact me via the contact form so that we can make initial arrangements.
It is very important to communicate as best as possible at the very beginning, about your expectations regarding the style of the drum part.
If you provide sheet music, then everything is basically clear to me, obviously.
Sending at least a fragment of the song for which I would record drums will clarify a lot.
Drum parts online – first things first
To start working, I need a guide audio-track, with BPM info:
The optimal version is several audio tracks with a separately recorded bass part, harmonic instruments, solo instruments, vocals.
The vocal track is particularly important because it is a kind of map informing where, for example, not to play drum fills, or on the contrary – to emphasize something with a drum fill or any additional accentuation.
Minimalist version, this is one track from a song demo in wav format, or another lossless audio format.
Music tracks should be played to a metronome. It is of course possible to record drums to a backing track played without a metronome, but preparing a session for recording drums in such a case can (sometimes) be quite time/labor-consuming and I may simply not undertake such an order.
I record drums using a fairly extensive set of microphones, but of course the mixing person does not have to use all the recorded tracks and only use standard shots – as you/she/he prefers.
Drum parts – tracks naming
Drum tracks names follow a widely used convention that should be obvious to the vast majority of sound engineers.
Drum Tracks Delivery (download)
I deliver the finished recording as a set of consolidated* audio tracks in wav format, in 24 bit resolution / and sampling rates of 44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 KHz (RME Interface). I send it to you packed as zip or rar via the Internet, using one of the popular services that allow you to send larger files.
I use Cubase Pro (v13-15) for recording drum parts, so there is also the option to deliver sessions in that format. I also have a Reaper license, so I can package tracks into sessions in that format.
*consolidated tracks – All audio drum tracks start at the same point, allowing you to seamlessly import them into any DAW.