Drumming question - tom fills

[Varsps]

Does any one know how the free-form tom fills are working in RB? As a drummer, I'm hoping for a lot of freedom, as it will be much more realistic and just downright fun if you have as much scope as possible to create your own fills (drummers rarely play the same song exactly the same twice live) but wonder how this will be implemented

In songs like don't get fooled again, theres absolutly loads of fills, and if you have to play them exactly as the Moon did, then its going to make that song very very rigid and trial and error to play exactly the same fills. but then, if you can essentially make your own within the bar, then will it play a "tom" sound over the top of the master track?

I'd be interested to know how this is going to work!

[lithiumkc]

Does any one know how the free-form tom fills are working in RB? As a drummer, I'm hoping for a lot of freedom, as it will be much more realistic and just downright fun if you have as much scope as possible to create your own fills (drummers rarely play the same song exactly the same twice live) but wonder how this will be implemented

In songs like don't get fooled again, theres absolutly loads of fills, and if you have to play them exactly as the Moon did, then its going to make that song very very rigid and trial and error to play exactly the same fills. but then, if you can essentially make your own within the bar, then will it play a "tom" sound over the top of the master track?

I'd be interested to know how this is going to work!

Im gonna assume theyll have freeform solos in some areas like that, but they'll have to lay out the notes correctly and exactly for drums in all the songs.

I really, really hope they have that drum practice mode i thought of though.. That'd make it a true solo drum machine. Assign drum sounds to each pad, save settings, control the tempo of the song, start it and then just jam out on em.

[ThePaska]

For the most part, you will almost always be able to play whatever you want during drum fills. I think there may be certain fills that do have assigned beats to them though, I think I remember reading that in an article.

[masterx1918]

yeah in fills you can play whatever you want, just have to end in green. So if you wanted to, in won't get fooled again you could play only crash symbols for all the fills if you wanted.

[Varsps]

yeah in fills you can play whatever you want, just have to end in green. So if you wanted to, in won't get fooled again you could play only crash symbols for all the fills if you wanted.

thanks, that sounds amazing, can't wait

[masterx1918]

in a way though I think fills are kind of pre-structured though, since in a sense these 4 drum pads double as maybe 10+ real drum parts, so there's no way to have COMPLETE freedom.