Handy Grooves: FUNK DRUMS

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Original price was: US$29.00.Current price is: US$20.00.

The Ultimate Funk Beats Collection

 

Elevate your music productions and live performances with the most comprehensive MIDI funk drum loops pack. Handy Grooves FUNK DRUMS offers an unparalleled selection of grooves—from simple quarter-note hi-hat patterns to intricate, syncopated rhythms that’ll make even David Garibaldi proud.

 

 

Key Features

  • Massive Collection: Over 482 unique beats accompanied by 188 dynamic drum fills, providing endless possibilities for your rhythm sections.
  • Versatile Patterns: Each of the 241 rhythmic midi drum patterns has two variations, allowing for seamless transitions and creative flexibility.
  • Multi-Genre Compatibility: While rooted in funk, these drum beats are versatile enough to fit a variety of styles, including Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, and any genre where a funky groove is desired.
  • Legendary Influences: Inspired by funk greats like The Meters, Tower of Power, James Brown, Prince, and Spin Doctors.
  • Flexible Integration: Combine these grooves with different virtual drum plugins to create unique sonic textures that suit your project’s needs.

 

What’s Inside

  • Simple Quarter Note-Lead Funk Beats – 58 patterns
  • Broken-Up, Syncopated Beats – 52 patterns
  • “Fatback” Beats – 20 patterns
  • Syncopated Snare on 2& and 4 – 12 patterns
  • Syncopated Snare on 2 and 3& – 18 patterns
  • “Chameleon” Style Sync Beats with Straight Feel – 20 patterns
  • “Chameleon” Style Sync Beats with Swung Feel – 20 patterns
  • Driving 8th Note Beats – 62 patterns
  • Funk Beats with Off-Beats Accents – 64 patterns
  • Slow, In-the-Pocket 16th-Note Funk Beats – 62 patterns
  • Linear Beats à la David Garibaldi – 20 patterns
  • Swung 16th Funk Beats – 58 patterns
  • DC Go-Go Beats – 4 patterns
  • Funky Cowbell Beats – 12 patterns
  • Funk Drum Fills: 94 straight fills and 94 swung fills

 

Versatility Across Genres

These funk midi drum beats aren’t just for funk enthusiasts. By combining them with different virtual drum plugins, they fit seamlessly into Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, and any genre that craves a funky groove. The included audio demos showcase this versatility by utilizing several different-sounding Handy Drums virtual drumsets, giving you a taste of how adaptable these midi drum grooves can be.

 

 

Why Choose Handy Grooves FUNK DRUMS?

Whether you’re crafting classic funk, producing a pop hit, or laying down a soulful R&B track, this midi drum pack is your go-to resource. The extensive variety ensures you have the perfect beat for any mood or tempo, enhancing your creativity and streamlining your workflow.

 

 

For BeatBuddy users:

This beat pack is compatible with BeatBuddy (1 & 2) and includes dedicated Windows and macOS installers that will install BeatBuddy songs (.bbs format) directly on your SD card, adding them to your existing project in seconds.

 

This product is included in the GoranGrooves Complete MIDI Bundle v2, a MIDI drum loop collection.

 

This product is included in the GoranGrooves Complete Collection 2026 for BeatBuddy.

 

 

Type: MIDI Loops

Size: 1MB

Producer:

 Goran Rista

Format: MIDI- Type 0, Type 1, BBS

Genre: POP

Platform:

Windows icon (Win 7+),  Apple icon (MacOS 10.11+, dual binary), BeatBuddy (1 & 2)

In-the-pocket Funk drum beats on your track with a few mouse clicks.

Use them out of the box or as a foundation for your own custom grooves.

For producers and songwriters alike.

Handy Grooves: highly-usable Funk drum loops

Handy Grooves: Highly-usable Funk drum loops

Covering all bases!

 

This collection of Funk midi drum beats starts from the very basic and builds on that foundation to highly complex, bringing you an exhaustive assortment of usable Funk midi drum grooves.

 

As with all drum loop packs from the Handy Grooves collection, the FUNK DRUMS are …well, handy.

They snap together beautifully, particularly when you meld
the appropriate genre-flavoured grooves with their respective kits.

COMPUTER MUSIC

The grooves are very usable, the MIDI obviously editable,
and the price pretty modest given what’s on offer.

SOUND ON SOUND

A turnkey way to stay focused on your creativity and songwriting
without worrying about the details.

RECORDING MAGAZINE

VERIFIED CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Injected with Human Feel

Zoomed in view of midi note off grid indicating human feel.

Mathematical perfection is rarely desired in music. Slight deviations from the rigid grid make a drum groove “swing” or feel natural.

 

While these Funk midi drum beats contain a perfectly consistent feel through the grooves, those grooves are not robotic as they do not conform to the equal mathematical grid.

Zoomed in view of midi note off grid indicating human feel.

Expertly Edited

Expertly Edited

What matters are the end results: great-sounding Funk drum grooves.

 

Merely recording even a world-class Funk drummer on an e-drumset doesn’t guarantee the resulting midi drums patterns will translate to an acoustic-like performance.

 

We carefully edit or program each note so that what you hear sounds as close as possible to what a great drummer would sound on acoustic drums. We then ensure that the feel is consistent throughout and that the grooves loop seamlessly.

Micro-Dynamics

Demonstration of dynamics of midi files.

We, human drummers, play drums dynamically. In addition to playing entire song sections softer or louder, every bar contains micro-dynamics.

 

Micro-dynamics are the differences between accented and unaccented notes. Without them, a perfectly natural drum groove sounds robotic and fake.

 

Handy Grooves Funk Drums contain completely natural micro-dynamics. The midi drum patterns play back as if a human drummer played them.

Demonstration of dynamics of midi files.

“In the Pocket”

“In the Pocket”

Together, human feel, proper articulations, and consistent groove make these Funk drum loops sound this good and “in the pocket.”

 

If you can’t get the world’s greatest Funk drummer to lay down your funky drum tracks, these midi drum loops will be your next best thing. Remember: with great power comes great responsibility. Use accordingly.

Practical time-saver

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A customer of ours once said: “Programming drum loops is as fun as having a root canal done”. 😂

 

Avoid the pain when you use one of our midi Funk drum loops as your starting point.

 

With the main beat, dynamics, and human feel already in place, customize them by muting, dragging, changing the notes, or even drum kits while preserving the original human elements.

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Variable Hi-hats

Variable Hi Hats- What Are They And How To Utilize Them Within Handy Drums?

Variable Hi-hats

Variable hi-hats allow you to easily adjust how open or how close a hi-hat is played. Handy Grooves FUNK DRUMS loops were created for Handy Drums plugins, which accomplish variable hi-hats in the most practical and easy way possible.

 

The hi-hats utilize only two midi notes: one for the edge and the other for the tip sounds and you can regulate the openness by utilizing the CC4.

 

This approach streamlines something that was previously more of a time sink of assigning notes to each articulation.
– COMPUTER MUSIC

 

Watch the video to see how easy it is to do this.

Made For Each Other  ❤ Handy Drums VI plugins

Don’t leave without them. Handy Drums, our ultra-realistic sampled drum instruments, will take your programmed Funk drum tracks to the next level.

 

The MIDI loops come with installers that offer seamless integration with Handy Drums. The loops are instantly accessible within Handy Drums’ MIDI Loop Browser.

 

Handy Drums and Handy Grooves is a perfect pairing for the singer-songwriter, musician, or producer who wants to get a professional-sounding drum track up and grooving.
– RECORDING MAGAZINE

 

With sound varieties abound, from dry to ambient, you are set to find the one that blends right into your song.

 

While our Funk MIDI loops conform to GM drum mapping wherever practical, they were created as the perfect accompaniment to our virtual drum instruments.

MEET THE DRUMMER PRODUCER- GORAN RISTA

Goran Rista, producer drummer, peering through a white surface which he spread open with his hands. A recording studio with drums can be seen in the background, behind Goran.

Goran Rista is a professional drummer-producer, and entrepreneur based out of Miami, FL, and founder of GoranGrooves.

 

Over two dozen virtual drum instruments consisting of thousands of drum samples and over 17,000 MIDI drum parts, make him one of the world's most prolific drum loop producers.

 

Goran's drum set libraries and drum loops are used by well over 300k performing musicians and studio producers worldwide.

 

Curious to find out more?

Goran Rista, producer drummer, peering through a white surface which he spread open with his hands. A recording studio with drums can be seen in the background, behind Goran.

THIS MIDI DRUM LOOP PACK IS INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING BUNDLES

COMPLETE COLLECTION (FOR BEATBUDDY USERS)

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COMPLETE MIDI BUNDLE (FOR DAW AND BEATBUDDY USERS)

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Interested in the “all you can handle” MIDI beats bundles but not yet ready?

 

Purchase this drum beat pack, and when you are ready to upgrade to one of our bundles containing our entire beats/MIDI loops catalog, we’ll discount it by what you have already spent on Handy Grooves and Beats For BeatBuddy packs (up to $50).

 

When you add the GoranGrooves Complete Collection 2026 for BeatBuddy or Complete MIDI Bundle to the cart, you’ll receive an automatic discount for your previous purchases on cart/ checkout pages. See all our Loyalty Deals and Discounts.

Ready to get grooving?

Original price was: US$29.00.Current price is: US$20.00.

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