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Free Beat Friday #11 – Free Drum Solo!

Performed by Merlin Matthews on a vintage 70’s Ludwig kit, this free drum solo moves through various drum tones and timbres using broomstick, hotrods and sticks.

The recurring pattern is (very loosely) based on a “Mozambique” feel

Winter Sale 2022- 50% of ALL Products

Today we’re launching our Winter Sale… a massive half-price sale on ALL products! Drum Loops In our winter sale you can pickup one of our boutique loop packs from just £3… Drum Kit Samples Or a full set of drum kit samples for as little as £2… Song Slices Or packs of our popular “song […]

Purdie Shuffle Loops – “12/8 Shuffle Grooves”

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 […]

Free Beat Friday #10 – Linear Drum Groove

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!!

Free Beat Friday #9 – “Funky Snakefoot” HipHop Breakbeat Groove

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!

Free Beat Friday #8 – Fast HEAVY Rock Drums

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…

Free Beat Friday #7 – Block Rockin’ Breakbeat

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.

Free Beat Friday #6 – Dancehall Drum Loop

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…

Deep Dry Soul Kit – Soul Samples

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.