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

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, funk and fusion played live on a whole drum...
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...

Free 4/4 drum loops by Magnus Brandell

Time for some free drum loops again, don’t you think? This time we have a bunch of 4/4 loops taken from our upcoming pack with the working title “Magnus Brandell Signature Grooves”. These grooves feature a lot of ghost notes, drags, buzzes, flams,...
Interview with composer Andy Kotz

Interview with composer Andy Kotz

About a year ago, I got an e-mail saying something like “Hey guys, here’s a song I recorded using your Latin Drumming pack. Feel free to use it on your website”. The sender was Andy Kotz, a Minneapolis-based...

Download Free 7/8 Drum Loops Here

So, what’s up with 7/8? Yeah, what is up with 7/8 time? Well, for starters it’s a damn cool time signature – and a popular one if you’re into advanced music styles such as progressive rock and fusion. When OddGrooves started out back in 2008...