Roland Dt 1 V Drums Tutor Software Download Zip
Olegario Benford
I recently started teaching an 8-year-old boy how to play the drums. Due to covid, all my lessons are currently online. There are slight differences between teaching online as opposed to teaching face to face. For me, the main difference is I must speak extra clearly and maintain a higher level of enthusiasm.
I started the lessons with some warm-up exercises. I played a few simple rhythms on the snare drum and then asked my student to copy what he had heard. After that, I wrote out some basic music notation which he had no problem understanding.
I have found it is a lot easier to keep the attention of a student with ADHD if they are learning music that they thoroughly enjoy. A way to do this is to ask the student what their 3 favourite songs are. Once I know this I can listen to the music and see which one has the best, funkiest beat and will be the most enjoyable for them to learn.
Another important way to help with attention span issues, is keeping lessons to around 30 minutes. I then break each lesson down into six five-minute segments. This means the student only needs to focus on one piece of information for a short amount of time. The different tasks also help to keep things interesting. This system has helped me over the years, I hope it can now help other people too.
Through many years of trial and error, I have come up with ways that are beneficial for any tutor to teach a student with ADHD. Although I am a music teacher, these principles can easily be applied to other subjects.
It appears there are a number of others on here using MuseScore in conjunction with Roland's Drum Tutor electronic drum software. I thought it would be beneficial to create a single thread where we can document tips, tricks, issues, and experiences related to using these two pieces of software together.
For those of you not familiar with Drum Tutor, it is a piece of software from Roland that provides feedback to the drummer to make sure one is playing the right note(s) at the right time. More specifically, it is comparing the drummer's pad triggering to a MIDI file that the software is playing. Correctly played notes get a blue circle around them, early/late/extra/incorrect notes get a red "X", and missed notes remain unmarked. There is also "game" mode with falling colored blocks (like in "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band"), but if you're using MuseScore, then you're probably playing in notation mode. One of the nicest features of the Roland software (in my opinion) is the ability to open MIDI files other than the ones included and get the same feedback functionality from the software with those files.
I can't take credit for discovering or solving this issue, as it was covered in a previous thread (which was actually how I found MuseScore to begin with). As mentioned in Luthierzan's thread ( ), a MIDI file saved from MuseScore without explicit tempo information will be stuck at a fixed tempo when opened in Drum Tutor. The fix is quite simple. In MuseScore:
3. Choose one of the pre-defined tempos and click OK. (Don't worry if you can't find the exact tempo you want or the name means nothing to you - you can change both of those things later.) The tempo name should now appear above that first note or rest.
4. To change the tempo value, right click the tempo text and chose Tempo Properties... Click the up/down arrows, use the up/down arrow keys on your keyboard, type in a value, or use the scroll wheel on your mouse (cursor must be over the value box for this last method to work). Click OK.
6. To move tempo text, simply click and drag it. While dragging, a dashed line between the tempo text and the note or rest that it is associated to will be visible. This step is optional and really only needs to be done if the tempo text is overlapping something else visually.
Ever played one of the Roland-provided* exercises or songs and wanted to modify it or take an excerpt from it? Well, those exercises and songs are just MIDI files, located here (in my installation at least):
I made a copy of the first exercise and opened it up in MuseScore. It had a stave for bass guitar and another one for percussion (or at least, it had a neutral clef). The percussion one did not appear to be a standard 5-line drumset, as the notes (closed hi-hats, bass drum, and snare) were all way down below the lowest line (6 or more lines down). I was able to add a 5-line drumset stave by going to Create --> Instruments (keyboard shortcut "I") and chosing Unpitched Percussion --> Drumset 5 lines --> Add. Also, looking at the Mixer (Display --> Mixer or keyboard shortcut F10), that second stave was associated with Piano 1. Anyone know if there's a way to convert that second stave to be a drumset stave or perhaps copy notes over to a drumset stave?
*To avoid stepping on any copyright toes, it would probably be best to keep any modified copies or excerpts to yourself for your own personal practice, as the original MIDI files are copyrighted by Roland. Although, they'd probably be more concerned with someone making money off pirated or reverse-engineered copies of the software than someone trying to sell MIDI files.
If you're primarily going to be using MuseScore to make drum scores for Drum Tutor, you can make your life a little easier by creating a custom drumset since there are 20 notes in the above table and you really only need 10 for Drum Tutor. Here's what I did:
3. A few of the 10 remaining notes will need a little tweaking to match the notation used by Roland. Rename Tom 5 to Tom 3. Go through each of the 10 notes and make sure the Note head and Staff line match the Roland notation on page 2 of the Drum Tutor owner's manual.
If you don't care for having "Drumset" or "Drs." showing in front of the percussion stave, you can clear those name fields while still in the Staff Properties dialog or you can select that text and press Delete on your keyboard when you're back out in your score (you'll have to do this for the one "Drumset" text and any one of the "Drs." texts). You can also put custom text in there, but that can only be done via the name fields in Staff Properties.
The other issue I had when opening one of the Roland MIDIs was the note lengths. Upon import, I had just accepted the default "Shortest note on import" of 1/64. The bass line came through with reasonable note lengths, but the percussion notes were all 64th notes. The fix for that one just required choosing 1/8 for "Shortest note on import" since those were the shortest notes in that exercise as displayed in Drum Tutor.
Did you find a way to specify hand notation in imported MIDI?
DT-1 has an additional layer of information about which hand you need to strike each played note.
I wonder if any editor can achieve this - maybe the answer hidden inside duplicated notes?
I once started a topic about the problem that a midi file made in Musescore had the problem that the tempo could not be changed, I worked it around by opening and saving the file with the program Midi-editor.
This week I updated Musescore to 2.0 and it appears to be solved.
In 2.0, did you have to use Tempo Text or specify some other tempo than default in order to get a midi with changeable tempo? I need to give 2.0 a whirl. Haven't messed with MuseScore in a while. Sometimes I'm lucky just to find time to sit down at the drums. :-/
No, I didn't have tot do some like that.
Just save as a midi file, open het in drumtutor and the tempo could be changed with Drumtutor which wasn't possible with midi files made in older versions of musescore.
Hi, sorry, I'm new to drumming and Musescore, my son has started lessons and uses the Trinity Rock and Pop exam books. We have a Roland electric drum kit and the VDrum tutor software. Are the songs from the books available to download as a midi file anywhere please? It would be great to work through the books but use Vdrum tutor too to practice. Thank you.
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