Today we are launching a brand new blues song by The Empere, a project by singer Emelie Rosenqvist and Per Ulfhielm, with lots of help from Magnus Brandell on drums and Karin Ulfhielm on backing vocals.

Listen to the track on Spotify

Free drum grooves for the song

Download the entire drum track in MIDI format (arranged for Toontrack Superior & EZdrummer, Addictive Drums, Steven Slate Drums, Native Instruments Abbey Road Modern & Studio Drummer, Extinction Level Event Drums, Logic Drums and General MIDI. 125 bars of world-class 6/8 blues drumming, played by Magnus Brandell.

Click here to download the free grooves

About the track Listen and Learn

The song was originally used as a demo track for our Blues Drumming pack (you can hear it by the sound clips on that page). I always liked the track, but I felt it was a bit slow, so we decided to make a new version in 75BPM instead of the original 64BPM.

I left the vocals, drums and Rhodes and re-recorded guitars, bass and most of the keyboards. The drums are MIDI, so no problem raising the tempo there. Vocals are trickier, but flex tempo in Logic worked its magic and I’m quite happy with the result.

The drum sounds are Toontrack Superior Drummer 3. Bass was recorded on a Rickenbacker copy through a Sansamp RB1, and all keyboards are stock Logic sounds.

Also lots of guitar tracks! Mainly strats and telecasters through a Friedman IR-X, a Cali76 compressor and a Halcyon Gold overdrive.

Credits

Emelie Rosenqvist: Lead vocals

Magnus Brandell: Drums

Karin Ulfhielm: Backing vocals

Per Ulfhielm: Guitars, keys, bass, backing vocals, production, arrangement, engineering

Written by Emelie Rosenqvist and Per Ulfhielm