I started off wanting to be a drummer – as with many, Upon further consideration, I'd bet that every musician begins this way. It's no doubt a latent instinct that singing and hitting things remain as a collective impulse, and will persist regardless of the technological developments that may spin out. Chimpanzees use wood-knocking as long-distance communication and their tendency to be communal would seem to lend itself to a “circle” of a shared activity. The distance would retract and the information conduit would become less “signal” and more communicative – which in itself is performative. 

I accept this, yet still the impulse remains intact. When I fell to learning Reason 13, I was astonished and placated by the ease of its use. Drum beats just started to create themselves. I've posted some of these on my Soundcloud, despite my personal mandate to use guitar exclusively to make what's heard. Percussionists are inherently more enamored with precision, and for reasons that seem apparent. My reflexes register as viewing inhumanity. 

Of course, that doesn't mean they're machines. There is the “x-factor" or Miles' “that thing.” The information can't simply be executed. It must contain a “feel” that causes it to translate primally. Consensus gentium is that musical precision and emotion are mutually exclusive. They aren't. When one is properly and ideally attained, they almost beg to be integrated. 

Drums – particularly toms are also not devoid of melody. Their tuning is arranged in fourths. Then, there is pitched percussion. A piano is ultimately a percussive instrument in that it requires hammers striking strings to make sounds. So, a plectrum could be considered a kind of hammer……

What all of this is leading up to, is my admission or resignation that my catalog is now going to include virtual instrument drum beats. The ideas are mine, I guess. So, I shouldn't worry about how I make them happen.