The “Popular Cover Songs Vol. 4” drum song pack for BeatBuddy offers another selection of must-have MIDI drum loops for gigging musicians and cover bands.
This collection features 10 classic tracks that span multiple decades and genres, with original grooves and fills faithfully transcribed from the artists’ recordings.
Whether you’re performing Rock, Pop, Soul, or Funk, these beats provide the essential rhythms to keep your live performances engaging and authentic.
Each song in this pack includes full song structures, capturing the essence of the original tracks. Load them into your BeatBuddy pedal drum machine for effortless, crowd-pleasing performances.
Included are 10 BeatBuddy songs (and source MIDI files) to play the following covers:
All Right Now – Free
Angels – Robbie Williams
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Happy – Pharrell Williams
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Heart Of Gold – Neil Young
I Feel Good (I Got You) – James Brown
I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick
Imagine – John Lennon
CONTENT SUMMARY:
Includes “BeatBuddy Songs” (.bbs format) with full song arrangements reflecting the original song forms.
Contains transcribed drum beats and fills, with additional fills added in sections without fills in the original recordings.
Includes source MIDI files for creating new BeatBuddy songs or for use in a DAW.
Perfect for faithfully playing song covers, practice sessions, or jamming.
Not compatible with BeatBuddy Mini; compatible only with the full BeatBuddy edition.
Notes: All of these songs will work with either the default Rock Standard, Standard, or Jazz Standard drumsets, while the VINTAGE STANDARD drumset for BeatBuddy is recommended for a more authentic sound for most songs.
EASILY INSTALL DIRECTLY ONTO YOUR SD CARD IN SECONDS
GoranGrooves’ songs for BeatBuddy come with installers for macOS and Windows that will install the song collections directly onto your SD card containing an existing BetaBuddy project.
Go from downloading to playing your new drum beats within a couple of minutes*.
*The actual time will depend on the download speed and the speed of your SD card and its card reader.
DRUM BEATS WITH A HUMAN FEEL
All drummers deviate from mathematically perfect timing, and great drummers manage to do it consistently, making the music feel good.
Be it laying back on 2 & 4 on the snare or slight swinging of the hi-hats, they all help make a human groove feel good in music.
Our drum beats are not mathematically perfect, but they have that human magic injected into them while keeping a consistent feel.
EXPERTLY EDITED DRUM LOOPS
All drum loops included in our collection are clean and loop seamlessly. They have been carefully edited and programmed so that each note sounds as it would in real life if played by a human drummer.
MICRO-DYNAMICS
A rhythm played on a percussive instrument can have many dynamic levels within a single bar. Some notes are strong and used to spell out the main rhythm, while others are soft and “ghosted,” providing the much-needed flow. They act as “time glue,” bridging the gaps between accented notes while delivering a subliminal sense of time and groove.
Further, as the velocity of drum playing changes, articulations may also change, so having those at the correct levels is essential for natural-sounding grooves.
Our drum loops have the appropriate microdynamics to make them sound as natural as possible when played back through one of our drumsets on the BeatBuddy.
“IN THE POCKET” BEATS
A rock-solid, consistent drum groove that fits well into the music is considered to be “in the pocket.” Solid timing, good feel, and microdynamics converge to make these loops sound realistic.
The drum beats in this pack will deliver “the pocket” with every loop, so all you need to do is to make sure to lock in with them.
VERIFIED CUSTOMER REVIEWS
4 out of 5 stars
Colin Fullwood
3/06/2025
Very easy to install.
I just wish it came with a score sheet as to when to go into the next transition.
The beats are very good.
Originally purchased just for the Bad Moon Rising beat but have now included a couple more from this package into my setlist.
If you use BeatBuddy, you are familiar with Goran Rista’s work. Goran was the sole drummer producer of the original content that has shipped on the BeatBuddy, BeatBuddy 2, and BeatBuddy Mini for the last decade. He also produced 99.5% of the BeatBuddy Premium Library content, now available exclusively here.
To enable even more musicians to use his realistic drum sample libraries and MIDI drum loops, Goran developed and launched Handy Drums, award-winning virtual drum and percussion instruments for DAW users.
A graduate of New Zealand’s School of Music with a degree in Jazz Performance, Goran has extensively traveled the world playing music before settling in Miami, FL, as a session drummer/ producer for the last 18 years.
He has produced thousands of MIDI drum loops and over two dozen drum sample libraries in various formats, used by well over 250,000 musicians worldwide, both live and in the studio.
THIS DRUM BEAT PACK IS INCLUDED IN THE FOLLOWING BUNDLES
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).
(Win 7+), 
(MacOS 10.11+, dual binary), 
US$6.50Play CCR's top 10 hits with these drum beats loaded onto your BeatBuddy.