OK, the next basic question…  I want to write parts.  I’m a singer songwriter/roots musician using lots of finger style and bottleneck slide guitar.  This is very dense rhythmically, think Mississippi John Hurt style playing with the ongoing double thumb on the bass notes to set the rhythm.  Drums need to be fairly simple, but interesting.  Think Jim Keltner or Ringo Starr… drummers who used their playing to support the song rather than just keep a beat.   Most of the groves and fills are much to busy to effectively work with what I’m doing, though I’m finding ways to use them.

For the song I’m working on right now, essentially a rockabilly beat on electric slide guitar, I’m using Modern Drummer, Straight 4/4, Verse, Variation 2 and removing the opening crash for most of the clip.  I tried to find an appropriate ending, but nothing came close (all way too busy and too long).  I was able to create a rough idea of what I wanted in the Tap to Find, quantize it and come up with a fairly good idea of what I was looking for, a triplet followed by three straight beats.  Nothing matched it or even came up. On a whim I tried dragging that out of the Midi Drop Zone and it ended up as a usable loop though I never did find a reference to this in the manual (yes, I read it!).  That’s the ending fill of the track now.

Is that the only way to create loops entirely from scratch?  I’d like to add in some simple drum responses to some of the lyric and some different fills but don’t see much details in the manual just how to do that.

Thanks very much!

Operating system: OS X El Capitan (10.11)