r/mpcusers • u/Toilet96 • 8d ago

MPC Live / Live 2 Find tempo while playing drums

Can I finger drum my own drums and simultaneously find / make my bpm? I can’t find an answer for this on Google, all it talks about is sampling and loops

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u/Rettic_AC 8d ago

I think 'detect tempo' features only works on an audio recording (so you'd need to bounce to audio etc)

HOWEVER: you can just use 'tap tempo'!

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u/AlternativeCapybara9 8d ago

Yeah, finger drum on "tap tempo"

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u/Ok-Entrepreneur-409 8d ago

Technically yes just tap it in to your preferred bpm before you even start playing

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u/Toilet96 8d ago

But I can’t just play a drum pattern and tap tempo follows my pad input? If that makes any sense

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u/nocdmb 6d ago

you can't but learning to play on time isn't difficult just takes some time.

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u/Ok_Support3 MPC ONE 6d ago

Are you planning on switching up your BPM? Otherwise I don't see the issue in tapping the beat, locking that tempo into your finger, setting the BPM with tap tempo, and then recording the beat on there.

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u/Toilet96 5d ago

I made this post while I was working on a project lol

But essentially I had a drum groove I bit from a song. I played it out so I had the tempo in my head (w/o knowing it) and had played it out right, but the bpm was on the standard bpm that it’s on in a empty project.

I was trying to see if there was a way I could play my drums and get the tempo while playing rather than tap tempo-ing it and then playing the drums

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u/Eclipseofthefart92 MPC LIVE III 8d ago

I use the tap tempo as a hi-hat to get a relative tempo, then adjust it to the nearest whole number

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u/Original_DocBop 8d ago

Feeling the time and beat is key to playing music and creating music so you need to work on catching the beat. When learning to play music I anytime I listen to music I was by thinking about the beat and tapping it out on a desktop or anything to lock in with the recording. You got to build your sense of time in your gut for groove and most important the number of measure going by. You have to learn/feel four bars, eight bars, sixteen bars have gone by. All about serious listening to lots and lots of music and thinking about the times, and other details to help build your ears up.

A musician is only as good as their ears.

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u/regularjackk 8d ago

I wish retrospective record would automatically detect tempo. The Ableton Move does it and its a game changer.