The “Popular Cover Songs Vol. 8” drum beat pack for BeatBuddy delivers another selection of MIDI drum loops from 10 of the most popular songs featured on gigging setlists.
Covering multiple decades, genres, and styles, this pack provides authentic grooves and fills transcribed directly from the original recordings, allowing you to recreate these iconic tracks in your live performances with ease.
From Rock anthems to Country hits and Pop classics, this collection offers versatile, full-song structures designed to integrate seamlessly with your BB drum machine pedal. Whether you’re rehearsing or performing live, these beats are essential for keeping your setlist tight and engaging.
Included BB Songs to play the following 10 covers:
Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke
Friends In Low Places – Garth Brooks
Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars
Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
Tequila Sunrise – Eagles
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
With “Popular Cover Songs Vol. 8” for your drummer pedal, you can bring these classic hits to life with authentic rhythms, making this an invaluable addition to any musician’s live performance toolkit.
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 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.
All of these songs will work with either the default Rock Standard, Standard, or Dance drumsets, while the VINTAGE STANDARD drumset for BeatBuddy is recommended for a more authentic sound for some songs.
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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