A lot of those 80's songs where recorded with a real live drummer instead of an electronic drum machine, so the beats are all over the place. This makes them just about impossible to beat grid correctly. The best way I found to beat grid live drummer tracks is to fix them in Abelton Live by warping the songs. This is not an easy thing to do correctly, and it is also very time consuming. The beauty of fixing the songs in Abelton Live, is that once they are fixed, the songs will beat grid correctly in any software like Serato, Traktor, or Rekord Box, without you having to re-beatgrid them. I'm Coming Out is a very tough track to fix due to the weird intro, and the inconsistent drummer. I went ahead and warped it for you so you can try it out. You can download it here:
http://www.mixcrate.com/panotaker/im...warped-9190147 Just download it, then analyze it in Serato, and the beat grid should be perfect from start to finish. It should show up as 114 BPM. Don't try to fix the intro, I already fixed it. The main beat should kick in perfectly on the 25th bar. If you need to learn how I did it, just let me know. I haven't messed with My Sharona yet.
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