no worry about the drum part. In the meantime, I learned how to do midi editing in my sequencer (BTW, thanks for pointing me to reaper, a great program which you mentioned somewhere else on your blog) and I rearranged the drum backing track by reusing the more straightforward parts from the breakdown and bridge sections.

Bernie

@bernie – Welcome! You make an excellent point, and several others have been… umm… ‘troubled’ by the busy drum part as well. I’ll see about putting together some alternate backing tracks that are more straightforward, at least for practice.

@BradK – I definitely will be providing that first MIDI file (and Dirk has some things that will help), but I don’t have a full version with backing parts yet. It’s on the list, but I have to finish up a couple of other things first. Patience, my friend :)

To those of you that haven’t followed since the “old days” Dirk wrote a really nice practice tool which I talked about in this post. He’s also no slouch on the piano himself…

just want to say how much i appreciate your fantastic work. Can’t wait for the videos.

One minor request/suggestion: I finally managed to load the midi file into a sequencer and separate the individual tracks. Now I can mute the piano part and play the drum and bass tracks at any bpm, which is very helpful while learning the piano groove.
However, I find the drum track most of the time a little bit too busy. All those snare hits at odd times can be distracting, at least for people like me with a not so firm rhythmic feeling. So here comes my request: would it be possible to have the midi files with a simpler, straighter drum part for exercising purposes. (if this is too much work, I can of course work with a metronome click).

Thanks

Bernie

If it helps you, I can send you the midi files of the earlier stuff you did – which I’m using for my Groove Tutor Software.

Keep up the good cause.

Dirk