The Swing Pack

(7 customer reviews)

$17.00

Ever tried to program a jazz drum groove in your sequencer? A rock beat can be a real pain if you want it to sound realistic, but a jazz groove is near-impossible to nail. The subtle playing nuances, those little snare drum ghost notes that almost are more felt than heard and the sections where you trade solos with the drummer… Forget about it. It takes FOREVER to get it right.

To get the job done, you need a real jazz drummer. OddGrooves to the rescue!

 

  • 138 MIDI jazz drum loops – That’s almost 55 minutes of great jazz drumming, or 2128 measures if you will.
  • 10 different tempos ranging from 100 to 210 BPM
  • Ride, hihat and tomtom grooves
  • Many variations in playing dynamics – “two-feel” softer, busy, loud etc
  • Trading Four sections with drum solo parts
  • Tempo doublings woven into some of the grooves
  • Arranged and mapped for Toontrack EZdrummer & Superior Drummer, XLN Audio Addictive Drums, Steven Slate Drums, NI Studio Drummer, NI Abbey Road Series plus mappings for I-Map, Logic Drummer and General MIDI
  • All recorded live by Berklee-educated professional session drummer Magnus Brandell
  • No quantization whatsoever

Description

Customer testimonials:

“After checking out your very generous free loops, I purchased the Jazz Drums loops at an equally generous price. The performances are absolutely amazing, the extended loop lengths (up to 32 bars) are great for arranging tunes and solo sections and the trading fours blew me away, but what stole the show for me, were the snare drum performances — top notch jazz drumming with breathtaking ghosting and tasteful syncopation. This is a collection no owner of EZX Jazz can afford to be without. Thank you again.” 
Adriaan van Niekerk

“What a find your website and grooves are!  I’ve already used some Jazz Swing selections for inspiration in my music for an upcoming project.  They are intricate and and have a natural feel, and the price couldn’t be fairer.  I look forward to experimenting with more of your offerings.  Keep it up, and keep me posted!”

Best,
David Remedios
Watertown, MA
www.remediossound.com

OddGrooves Jazz Drum Loops – Swing Style

OddGrooves Swing Drumming makes producing a great sounding jazz drum track literally as easy as drag-and-drop. Simply select the tempo and choose from a palette of live recorded drum performances played by Berklee educated session drummer Magnus Brandell and you are on your way to Birdland.

“Outstanding For Practicing Jazz”

No matter if you are a beginner or professional jazz player you need to practice to either develop or keep your chops. And we all know how uninspiring it can be to practice to a metronome, so why not take this opportunity to have a professional jazz drummer available at all times?

Sound Clips

7 reviews for The Swing Pack

  1. John Benoit (verified owner)

    Nice grooves. I have been using them in Logic Pro and even my first attempt was quite successful at creating a realistic live, spontaneous effect that I could not achieve clicking in basic drum patterns. Two requests for future, however: 1) While l do like the activity and the “chatter” of the grooves, it would also be good to have at least 8-bars each of several very basic swing patterns for those occasions when you want the drums to really recede into the background. 2) I do a lot of big-band arranging. It would be nice to have a series of fills that “set up” hits on beat 2, the “and” of 2, beat 3, etc. Also, I would like a series of hits on the “ands” of -2 & -4 as well as a series of hits on a dotted quarter cross rhythm. These are all common rhythms in the big band swing vocabulary. The fills on the tracks that I have worked with so far are all very nice in a free, combo-jazz style, but the fills don’t seem to be setting up specific hits or accents. I have to modify these fills whenever I want to set up or accent a particular rhythm. Nonetheless, I am sure that I will be downloading additional collections as my projects require them.

  2. Jochen

    It’s a realy good feeling, if you play the Play along with your new friend on Set !!

  3. Michael DeLisio (verified owner)

    Very nice MIDI jazz drums – I like these very much!

  4. Darren McFerran (verified owner)

    The swing pack breathed life into my big band arrangements that took them to a whole new level, absolutely fantastic!

  5. Campbell Millar (verified owner)

    Another brilliant, totally musical useful pack!

  6. Freek Wijers (verified owner)

    Hello the midi tracks are really usable and sound very good, next time again.

  7. Brad Callahan (verified owner)

    Love everything!

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