Hi. Both perfectly possible. But, it does take patience. It helps if you've had experience with playing drums too. Let me know off list if you want some high had patterns putting together. Cheers Darren ----- Original Message ----- From: Stacy Blackwell To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:38 PM Subject: [ddots-l] High Hat rythyms Hello, gang. This is more of a musician/ Sonar question rather than an accessibility issue. How would you guys go about trying to play a double handed high hat rythym along with a snare and bass drum, such as in some 80's pop/rock. I am sure the first step is to slow the temp down and get the quantize right, but I was thinking for authienticity it might be better to enter it with two fingers on the keyboard. This would involve a drum map I suppose. Or would you simply trial and error in sound on sound mode one hit at a time until a decent beat is done for copying and pasting? Along these same rythym lines, how can you create a shaking tambourine for this type of music? I'm not talking about the tambourine that hits on the beat, but the ones that sounds like it is being shaked/rattled before it hits on the beat. Is this possible? Thanks for any suggestions. I've been on a long analog break. It's going to feel good to get back into my amateur-MIDI mode! SLB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. Check it out