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Simple Grooves for Intimate Performances
The “Cajon Essentials” drum beat pack for BeatBuddy brings the straightforward, versatile beats from the popular Gig Basics collection—now played exclusively on cajon!
Designed for smaller, cafe-style gigs or acoustic performances, these MIDI drum beats capture the warm, earthy sound of the cajon. Whether you’re playing Pop, Rock, Reggae, or swing with an acoustic instrument, these simple grooves are perfect for intimate settings where subtle rhythms keep the focus on the music.
To play these beats as intended, you must install a drumset for BeatBuddy containing a cajon—either the World Percussion Plus or the Flamenco Percussion drumset. This pack offers essential rhythms for a wide range of musical styles, ensuring your performances stay smooth and professional without overwhelming the soundscape.
Included Beats:
Bossa Nova
Pop Rock Basic
Halftime Rock
16ths Pop
Reggae Straight Basic
Reggae Swung Basic
Shuffle Basic
Shuffle Funk
6/8 Simple
7/8 Simple
Swing
Rockabilly Train Straight
Rockabilly Swung Train
Waltz Simple
With the “Cajon Essentials” drum beat pack for your BB pedal drummer, you’ll have the right rhythms to create a laid-back, intimate vibe for smaller venues, delivering reliable and smooth grooves every time.
CONTENT SUMMARY:
Includes “BeatBuddy Songs” (.bbs format) with two sections in most songs.
Contains drum beats and fills in each section.
Includes source MIDI files for creating new BB 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.
EASILY INSTALL DIRECTLY ONTO YOUR SD CARD IN SECONDS
GoranGrooves drum beats for BB come with installers for MacOS and Windows that will install the collections directly onto your SD card containing an existing BB 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 BB.
“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.
FROM THE PRODUCER OF THE ORIGINAL CONTENT FOR BEATBUDDY AND THE BB PREMIUM LIBRARY
MEET YOUR DRUM WIZ
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 BB and BB Mini for the last decade. He also produced 99.5% of the BB 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 100,000 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).
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