I am struggling to keep time during drum fills… I find them very distracting. I am trying real hard to ignore everything and just keep doing my own thing, but I always end up gravitating towards what my ears are hearing. I guess my inner metronome is not loud enough.
Is there a drum app that can throw in random drum fills every couple of bars? Basically I need the opposite of the ultimate groove workout - instead of one bar of silence, I need one bar of random shit happening.
I think the “drummers” in GarageBand can do that (and therefore, presumably, also in LogicPro). They would normally do a fill at the end of a segment (e.g., every four or eight bars or so) but there is also a knob that lets you adjust the frequency and “craziness” of the fills (to a certain degree).
Might be a starting point for your practice (if you GB)
Hm, I guess if you already have maxed out the Fill button, then the only other option I can think of is to make the sequence shorter and thus “force” the drummer to play a fill.
Initially, when you pull up a drummer, you get 8 bars, which you then can copy/paste and stitch together to get longer sections. But, you can size that 8 bar window to only include 1 or two bars and then max the Fill button… maybe that can work!? In the end, it is not a high precision editing tool, as the fills are computer generated and probably follow a somewhat fixed algorithm.