Tap 2 Find, never finding grooves that work for me, grrrr…

[Troy Castellano]

Just want to vent for a moment…I get so dang frustrated as I use tap to find and never seem to find groove that suits me. I always tap out a kick and snare groove and the T2F seems to never find these simple grooves. They seem to always be 80% a lower matches. I’m telling you these are usually very simple beats in 8th or 16th note grooves. I spend hours search and it just kills the inspiration for the songs I’m working on. Ready to just say the heck with it just do everything with acoustic guitar and vocal. Don’t get me wrong every once in a blue moon I do find the groove I like but not very often. Would be nice if I could tap and get what I’m looking for before the search kills my song! Attached is an audio sample, the first drum piece is my tap, the second is the results (including online shop). a 78% match. Really? That’s a real simple groove that Ez D 2 does not have available. Annoying!!!

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[Troy Castellano]

Here’s the attachment….

[Troy Castellano]

BTW, thats just ONE example of many drums taps I do in attempt to find some loops weekly. 90% of the time I get crap for results. Never close enough to start working on the drum track!

[Scott Eshleman]

perhaps try only 1 or 2 pieces of the groove: only the kick & snare or only the hats…

have you enabled the “Search Web Shop MIDI” option?
is it possible that without enabling this option you might not have grooves in your purchased libraries that match up with the sample?

[Troy Castellano]

If you read my post above, that’s what I said I do when searching. “I always tap out a kick and snare groove” and “results (including online shop)”.

[Scott Eshleman]

Sorry. I missed that.
Maybe I’ll have to resist reading and responding to posts in the forum from my phone
(without my glasses.).
I was just trying to help.

[EachHit]

I also had the feeling that some simpler grooves aren’t very common in the Standard Libraries.. Sometimes it’s hard to find a simple beat for me too. Then I had to be creative and cut Beats from the Library into pieces. Move some Instruments Midi information to another and so on. But I also have to mentioned that I wrote a Song with my Buddy and a lot of Drum Parts just fit perfect for the Guitar. Even Fills etc. But that was Metal Music.

I just did a Tab2Find Searchh with a Simple Beat (8th Notes HiHat, Snare on 2 and 4 and Bass on 1 and 3) and it put out almost 40 Beats which matched to 100% when I include the Web Shop Midi.

Heavy Greetz.

[Henrik Ekblom]

Try to use the filters to refine your search.
In the type column, check the “beat” filter (which means that no fills will be amongst the results).
In the menu (top right corner of the search tab), click Visible Filter Columns/Resolution. Using those filters, you can specify 8ths or 16ths.

I tried to tap in the MIDI you have in your posted mp3 file and I get a lot of similar sounding results. Have you checked that you have the latest version of the software and the MIDI? (Using EZdrummer 2’s main menu in the top right corner, Check for Updates)

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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[PENTLEY@GMAIL.COM]

Years later I find myself with the same issue. it’s like hey drummer can you just please play some 3rd grade shit please?

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