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Some Drum Loops

Started by carol m, Jun 15 2010 01:27 AM

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#1 OFFLINE   carol m

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 01:27 AM

Here is a random selection of drum loops - all at 120bpm and 4mins long, but you can loop them if you play them back on repeat or cycle.

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:21 AM

Carol,

Those are awesome! I'm at work right now, so I can't exactly play to them yet but I will work on it tonight.

The drum tracks are exactly what I'm looking for. Do you know any programs that I could use to make them myself?

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Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:54 AM

These are just loops that come with GarageBand which is on every Mac computer. I just extended them from 4,8 or 16 beats out to 4 mins. Many people would cut and paste a few together to make the drum track more fancy to fit a song if they were making a song recording - intros and fills +/- cymbal crashes etc, but I just used them straight with no editing.

There are sites for making your own loops - I've forgotten the names, maybe Beta Monkey is one? Maybe other members will post a few suggestions - maybe Frooty Loops? If you google for drum loops you should get some leads.

My RP 150 by Digitech has many drum loops you can edit or make up your own (too advanced for me) but it has about 50 different ones for fiddling with or using straight. Other digital pedals do similar things.
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Posted 17 June 2010 - 02:43 PM

Nice to see your experimenting. Thanks for the loops.
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Posted 17 July 2010 - 04:24 AM

Thanks for the loops. Great stuff to play around on a rainy Saturday ;-)
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Posted 17 July 2010 - 09:58 AM

Thanks!!

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:07 AM

Beta Monkey, Drums On Demand & Smart Loops are places where you can purchase Drum Loops & create your own drum tracks....but you will need software like Acid, Reaper, or the free TrakAx to use them.

Here are some links to some decent Free Drum Loops.....

DOD_139BPM

DOD_94BPM

DOD 120bpm

And 2 from Smart Loops....HERE and HERE. Sign up for the News Letter and get a ton more.

And here is some Drum Software that you can program yourself....

Hotstepper

HammerHead

Leaf Drums 2.33


You can go to This Thread to here the Smart Loop ones in action on some tracks I did up for the fun of it (all the Smurf ones & I am playing all rhythm instruments). These were done in Reaper.

Hope this helps! :rockon:
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