Free MIDI Drum Jams

Free MIDI Drum Jams

What is a jam? A MIDI drum jam is a 32-bar drum groove that you can use as a starting point for a tune, practise other instruments to or simply play along with, whether you are a guitarist, keyboard player, bassist, songwriter or whatever. Just like all of our...

Uptempo Pack Soundclips

Here are 3 sound clips from the Uptempo Pack in the widely diverse genres Soul pop, Hard rock and Synthwave to show you the diversity of the uptempo grooves and different ways to use them in your songwriting. We also used different drum samplers for each of the tracks...
Winners of the 2021 Lockdown Song Contest

Winners of the 2021 Lockdown Song Contest

The winners of the OddGrooves Lockdown Song Contest are: First prize winner Paul Devlin: Home Grown oddgrooves · Paul Devlin - Home Grown Paul Devlin I come from a musical family. Growing up in a household with five siblings, all of whom sing, play an instrument, and...
Lockdown Contest 2021

Lockdown Contest 2021

Lockdown Song Contest 2021 2021 is really off to a flying start! Every time you turn on the news, check your social feed or similar you learn of new mutations, restrictions and other horrors lurking in the dark. Not fun, especially when you’re locked up at home,...
Free Blues Drum Grooves

Free Blues Drum Grooves

Click below to download 16 free grooves, all selected from the OddGrooves Blues Drumming pack. These grooves are mostly 12 bars, but there are a couple of 24 in there as well. Nine different tempos. 4/4 shuffles, 6/8, 12/8 and and straight 4/4. Arranged for Toontrack...
Blues Drumming Sound Clips

Blues Drumming Sound Clips

Here are a couple of audio clips featuring drum grooves taken from the pack OddGrooves Blues Drumming. All drums are of course played by Magnus Brandell, and the rest of the instruments are played by Per Ulfhielm. The tune Listen and learn features Emelie Rosenqvist...