by Per Ulfhielm | Dec 7, 2019 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
Our MIDI drum jams are 32-bar drum groove that you can use as a starting point for a tune, practise other instruments to or simply play along with, whether you are a guitarist, keyboard player, bassist, songwriter or whatever. Just like all of our grooves, our free...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jan 15, 2025 | Customer releases
Here’s a new customer release! John McCain of Basics for Baroque Improvisation has composed and plays all instruments on this meditative track, using our ECM Drumming pack for the drum parts. It reminds me of Mike Keneally, Frank Zappa and Pat Metheny. Really...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jan 1, 2025 | Customer releases
Here’s a new release from Wisconsin-based Supernatural Blondes, called Religion of the Heart. The songs feature lots of OddGrooves MIDI drum loops, primaily from the packs Straight-ahead Rock and The Songwriter packs. 1980’s style hard rock. I love it!...
by Per Ulfhielm | Dec 30, 2024 | Customer releases
I love it when our customers use OddGrooves’ MIDI in their songs, especially when the songs are released on the streaming services. So a while ago Terry Weiss from Skeeter Jones & The Fireflies reached out about their new EP Feathers, which features plenty...
by Per Ulfhielm | Aug 30, 2024 | Free drum grooves, Sound Clips
Download a selection of grooves (50 bars of bumpy beat jazz drumming assembled into one nifty MIDI file) from the upcoming Beat Jazz Pack by clicking the link below. The grooves are arranged for Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 & EZdrummer 3, XLN Audio Addictive Drums...
by Per Ulfhielm | Apr 25, 2024 | Free drum grooves
Here are a selection of free drum grooves (all played by Magnus Brandell) that were recorded for the song Footsteps in the Water by Sophie Bickerdike. I put together 85 bars, or just over 3 1/2 minutes of Magnus’ drumming into one long MIDI file that you can use...
by Per Ulfhielm | Dec 25, 2023 | Articles and Tutorials
Save your new OddGrooves pack where you normally keep your grooves, samples etc Open EZdrummer 3 Go to the Grooves page and click the Options menu top right, then choose “User MIDI and linked folders” and “Add linked folder”. Navigate to...
by Per Ulfhielm | Dec 16, 2023 | Free drum grooves, Sound Clips
We put together a whole 6/8 60BPM ballad, with grooves taken from our upcoming Songwriter series vol. 3 – Ballads, and you can download it for free by clicking the link below. Just like all OddGrooves products, it’s all MIDI. This means that you can easily...
by Per Ulfhielm | Apr 14, 2023 | Free drum grooves, Sound Clips
Sound clips Here are a couple of sound clips from the upcoming MIDI drumming pack Songwriter Midtempo Grooves. Steven Slate 5 was used for the 120BPM indie track, and Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 for the others. oddgrooves · OddGrooves Songwriter Series Vol 2:...
by Per Ulfhielm | Sep 24, 2022 | Sound Clips
Here are 3 sound clips from the Uptempo Pack in the widely diverse genres Soul pop, Hard rock and Synthwave to show you the diversity of the uptempo grooves and different ways to use them in your songwriting. We also used different drum samplers for each of the tracks...
by Per Ulfhielm | Mar 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
The winners of the OddGrooves Lockdown Song Contest are: First prize winner Paul Devlin: Home Grown oddgrooves · Paul Devlin - Home Grown Paul Devlin I come from a musical family. Growing up in a household with five siblings, all of whom sing, play an instrument, and...