![]() I teach a music production course at the high school that I work at here in Toronto and lesson one with drums is that for most styles of music, the most basic drum beat possible is playing the bass drum on beat 1 followed by the snare drum on beats 2 and 4. Create a new software instrument track, select a drum kit and get to it! The one issue with this method is that you need to know how to create a drum beat. This by far is the most flexible way to create drums. ![]() If you have all of your drummer regions set exactly the same it can be very boring so make sure that for each region it is tweaked to account for the varying dynamics that are part of most songs. I feel it is a large step above using loops, but can be limiting if you don't use it properly. ![]() Each drummer can be further customized by decided how many fills they perform, what sub-set of drums they use and even more. As Dave mentioned in the comments below your question, you can select a drummer from a set of styles (R&B, songwriting, etc) and select from several drummers within each style. This was originally a feature with Logic Pro X and has since migrated to GarageBand (OS X only). GarageBand employs loops as one way of creating drums, but you're right, it is very limited especially if your interested in keeping up to date with pop music (trap, EDM, etc).
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