by Per Ulfhielm | Jan 31, 2021 | Blog
Lockdown Song Contest 2021 2021 is really off to a flying start! Every time you turn on the news, check your social feed or similar you learn of new mutations, restrictions and other horrors lurking in the dark. Not fun, especially when you’re locked up at home,...
by Per Ulfhielm | Aug 20, 2020 | Blog, Free drum grooves
Click below to download 16 free grooves, all selected from the OddGrooves Blues Drumming pack. These grooves are mostly 12 bars, but there are a couple of 24 in there as well. Nine different tempos. 4/4 shuffles, 6/8, 12/8 and and straight 4/4. Arranged for Toontrack...
by Per Ulfhielm | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here are a couple of audio clips featuring drum grooves taken from the pack OddGrooves Blues Drumming. All drums are of course played by Magnus Brandell, and the rest of the instruments are played by Per Ulfhielm. The tune Listen and learn features Emelie Rosenqvist...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to Toontrack’s EZdrummer 2. For EZdrummer 3 instructions, click here. Save your new OddGrooves pack where you normally keep your grooves, samples etc Navigate to the Browser section of EZdrummer 2 and click on the...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to XLN Audio Addictive Drums 2: Save your new OddGrooves pack on your hard drive and locate the folder named “OddGrooves <…> Addictive Drums” Open the Addictive Drums 2 plugin and click the help menu...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves MIDI pack to Steven Slate Drums 5.5: Save your new OddGrooves pack on your hard drive. Locate the folder with the .lib extension and copy it to the “Grooves” folder located in the SSD5 Library (this varies depending on...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to Native Instruments Studio Drummer: Save your new OddGrooves pack on your hard drive. Locate the folder marked with “NI Studio Drummer” and copy it to the “MIDI Files” folder located in the Studio...
by Per Ulfhielm | Jul 1, 2020 | Articles and Tutorials, Blog
This is how you add an OddGrooves pack to Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 3: Save your new OddGrooves pack where you normally keep your grooves, samples etc Navigate to the Grooves page in SD3 and click on the barely visible button named “Grooves” top...
by Per Ulfhielm | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
The 2020 Lockdown Song Contest is over, and we have chosen four winners out of a total of 50 tracks. This was not an easy task, I assure you, as there were so many good songs! So, without further ado, here are the winners: Winner #1 is Saulo Valerio Saulo Valerio Hi,...
by Per Ulfhielm | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Free drum grooves, Uncategorized
16th note shuffle funk, a style that we like to refer to as Bumpy, and is a type of groove you frequently hear from artists such as Stevie Wonder and James Brown, but also Toto, Sting and Peter Gabriel. Magnus got the inspiration from Vinnie Colaiuta, Per Lindvall,...