Articles about the Beat Shed recordings. Detailed information, technical information, and the story as to how the session came about.
Information about how the beats were recorded, inspiration behind them and more about how to use the beats.
Today we’re launching a new drum loops pack “12/8 Shuffle Grooves” – a HUGE pack of Purdie Shuffle loops, including fills and percussion. The Complete Purdie Shuffle Loops Toolkit Take 149 Purdie shuffle loops played at 4 tempos and articulated (mostly) on hats, hats with crash, ride, then ride with crash… … then add 51 […]
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #10 – A linear drum groove is where you only hit every beat of a subdivision in the bar, but don’t hit anything at the same time. Which is kinda strange for a drummer as that’s exactly what we’ve learned to NOT do!!
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #9 – The hiphop breakbeat groove in this month’s Free Beat Friday is inspired by Synthetic Substitution by Melvin Bliss which was sampled by The Pharcyde on their classic “Ya Mama”. Our version is swung rather than straight though!
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #8 – A fast HEAVY Rock drum Shred-Up!….We’ve done a couple of up-tempo heavy rock drum sessions lately. So we were WELL in the mood for a bit of shred…
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #7 – A block rockin’ breakbeat!…. In case you didn’t get the reference (!?!) this month’s Free Beat Friday is affectionately influenced by a fairly well known track by the Chemical Brothers.
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Blog story about the recording of Free Beat Friday #6 – A dancehall Drum Loop…. We recorded this STONKING dancehall drum loop back in December. So we can’t really remember! But it must’ve been cold and we fancied something steamy and exciting to warm up…
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Blog story about the recording of “Deep Dry Soul Kit” – a sample pack containing 41 drum hits recorded across 11 different voices at 4 different velocities. Classic-sounding soul samples produced with a 70’s drum sound.
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Dust off the EMU, set the Akai to STUN – this month it’s a funky breakbeat loop…
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Blog story about the recording of “Big, Round & Bouncy”. 47 dry funky grooves recorded in 72 loops – played at 85 & 102 BPM. Classic-sounding soul loops produced with a 70’s drum sound.
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Lob some talc on the kitchen floor – it’s time for a dirty disco groove…
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Funk Drum Samples - Modern Funk Kit
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12/8 Drum Loops - Shuffle Grooves
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Grunge Drum Samples - Grunge Kit
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Funky Drums Bundle
£ 23.25
Soul Drums Bundle
£ 27.00
6/8 Hotrods Bundle
£ 31.88
Heavy Rock Bundle
£ 28.50
