Free Rock Drum Grooves

A while ago, I was playing around with a cover version of Rival Sons’ excellent tune Open My Eyes, just for fun. Such a good song! My version sounded pretty bland though, especially with my lame vocals, which are very far away from Jay Buchanan. The first draft...

Prog rock MIDI drum groove – no cost

Here’s a Genesis/Rush-inspired tune that I (Per) wrote for Magnus to demo his new digital drum kit from Goedrum, with whom he recently signed an endorsement deal. Free Progressive MIDI grooves Click the green button below to download Magnus’ performance...

Funky Cruise – Free backing track

A funky backing track with free MIDI drum loops This is a recently written tune that I thought should make a pretty decent backing track as there are very few quirks and difficult passages in it. It should in other words be quite easy to play lead to. It’s kind of...

Fools – Free backing track

Advanced backing track and free drum loops As a guitar player, I have always been on the lookout for good-sounding backing tracks that I could play lead over. And while there are some pretty good ones out there – mostly of 12-bar blues backings –...

Free African Drum Grooves – Download Here!

Updated with new grooves! How about some African-inspired drum grooves? For free? Cool, because we selected a couple of grooves from our upcoming African Drumming pack for instant download! Just click the green button below. All grooves are recorded live by...

Free ECM drum grooves

Updated with new grooves November 21, 2013! How about a bunch of free jazz grooves inspired by the great artists of the ECM label, such as Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Pat Metheny and John Abercrombie? The pack includes three longer jam-like modern jazz grooves (ECM,...
Mike Keneally Ripped My Head Off in London

Mike Keneally Ripped My Head Off in London

I’m writing this from a hotel room in Bloomsbury, London and it’s the morning after my head was ripped off. Ripped off in the sense that last night I had one of the most profoundly intense musical experiences of my 42 years on planet earth – I saw...

Magnus plays on Shakespeare Sonnets CD

Now let me tell you about a very cool project that OddGrooves drummer Magnus Brandell recently participated in. Magnus plays drums on Danish artists Thomas Magnussen and Bjorn Palmqvist’s brand new CD Shakespeare Sonnets, which features Magnussen’s...