Steely Dan Style (Beats for BeatBuddy)

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$6.50

Your Personal Drummer for Live Performances

The “Steely Dan Style” beat pack brings the grooves of one of the most iconic jazz-rock bands to your BeatBuddy.

This pack brings MIDI drum beats in Steely Dan style to your pedal drum machine, capturing the essence of the band’s complex jazz-rock fusion. Whether you’re gigging or rehearsing, these MIDI loops will serve as your personal drummer, providing a solid rhythm for every song.

Transcribed from ten of Steely Dan’s greatest hits, the drum beats are inspired by legendary drummers like Bernard Purdie, Steve Gadd, Jim Keltner, and Rick Marotta. Known for their intricate structures, jazz-influenced harmonies, and flawless production, Steely Dan’s music is synonymous with precision and groove. Now, you can easily integrate timeless drum beats into your solo gigs.

This collection is suitable for live performances and practice sessions. It helps you lock in with the rhythms that have defined Steely Dan’s grooves for decades. Load the beats onto your pedal drum machine for tight, nuanced grooves, and keep your playing in the pocket.

Included are 10 BB songs to play the following covers:

Babylon Sisters
Deacon Blues
Do It Again*
Hey Nineteen
Home At Last
Josie
Kid Charlemagne
Peg
Reelin’ In The Years
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

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.

Notes: While these songs will work with the default GoranGrooves drumsets for BeatBuddy, we recommend the VINTAGE STANDARD drumset or the RETRO CUSTOM drumset for a more authentic sound.

* Do It Again utilizes the STUDIO STANDARD drumset for percussion, available for purchase separately.

This product is included in the GoranGrooves Complete Collection 2024 for BB.

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Changelist

Update 1.1

Babylon Sisters: extra fills
Deacon Blues: groove 3, / extra fills
Hey Nineteen: convert grooves 1 and 2 into 2/4 / extra fills
Home At Last: extra fills
Josie: groove 2, / extra fills
Kid Charlemagne: groove 3, / extra fills
Peg: groove 2 (o hat), groove 3 (o hat), groove 5 (o hat) / extra fills
Reelin In The Years: groove 1, groove 3 / extra fill
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number: groove 2, / extra fills

Type: Beats For BeatBuddy

Size: 1MB

Producer:

Goran Rista

Format: BBS, MIDI (type 0)

Genre: POP, ROCK, JAZZ

Platform:

(Win 7+), (MacOS 10.11+, dual binary), BeatBuddy

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.

Zoomed in view of midi note off grid indicating human 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 COMPLETE COLLECTION FOR BB

Complete Collection 2024 beats for BeatBuddy 3d virtual packaging box showing a grayscale image of a snare drum with 2 sticks drumming on it and a download sign in the middle of the snare

Interested in the “all you can handle” premium bundle for your BB but not yet ready?

Purchase this drum beat pack, and when you are ready to upgrade to the entire bundle containing all of our drumsets and drum beats for BB, we’ll credit you for individual products for BB (up to $50).

When you add the GoranGrooves Complete Collection 2024 for BB, you’ll receive an automatic discount for your previous purchases on cart/ checkout pages.

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