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Track List
disc one
Goat Man -130 BPM - medium fast energetic track. Upbeat pop, alt, rock, or country. Percussion loop includes cajones, flange shaker, Leslie, large cabasa, sleigh bells, tamb, utar.
Big Stick - 70/140 BPM - slow HUGE drums rock
Agony of the Feet - 118.5 BPM - rock, pop, funk, hip hop drums with metallic loop. Percussion loop includes chime, church bell, dampened cymbal, tamb, tympani.
Shimmey - 126 BPM - funky drums with a syncopated loop. Deconstruct the loop for simpler rhythms, use all elements for offbeat feel. (stereo wav mix uses sparser perc loop) Percussion loop includes can, grater, tin pots, water triangle.
disc two
Brick in the Waltz -150 BPM - 6/8 slowish but big, good for world, alt or laid back pop track. Great vibe with or without percussion loop. brush toms and tub kick were performed at the same time. nice flow (note that loop2 has no end as neither instrument plays the last downbeat) Percussion loop includes bongo, brush tom, chime, drum, tub kick, ugly cymbal.
Light It Up -112 BPM - straight ahead beat, nice fills, great feel, really simple but effective. Percussion loop includes gourd, shaker, tamb.
Heavy Rain - 122 BPM - the coolest vibe ever. Could be jazz, pop, r&b
Bubble - 177 BPM - laid back worldy, really nice almost tropical feel. Note that loop 3 has no ending as the sound dies out by the end. Percussion loop includes dumbek, finger cymbal tree, gourd, hadjini, rain stick)
disc three
Boogaloo - 110 BPM - rock/pop/funk/alt - nice trashy room sound. Breaks can be chopped up and used as intros. Lots of breaks, we had so much fun doing them we got carried away, didn't think anyone would complain about some extra stuff. Breaks allow perc loop to shine through. Percussion loop includes bamboo sticks, clay drum, gourds, hand drum, tambourine.
Crawling - 124 BPM - big and slow. sounds great with lots of room. The "pause" section is a short bridge groove with a pause at the end of the bar.
Down the Middle - 176 BPM fast rocker, alt, pop, straight ahead, simple
disc four
Clockworks - 100 BPM - Big solid drums. Loop has diverse elements, clacky plastic, metal chimes and buzzy sounds. Strip the loop down or use it all. Tons of fills and intros. Percussion loop includes tamb, anvil, buzz cymbal, plastic, stereo tympani sides, metal strip, buzz chime, leslie.
Funk Factory - 120 BPM - great funk, rock, pop feel. Metallic loop makes a percolating bed for the drums. The leslie adds a nice effect. Percussion loop includes leslie, metal, snare brush, tamb head, trash cymbal.
Fly - 100 BPM Interesting earthy loop, including a broken toy from a kids burger meal. Ethno/world perc, lots of segments. The marching drum segments have a great feel, but due to their nature, may not loop well. Some start with a light snare hit and end with a press roll or tom hit, which may sound funny when looped. Experiment using segments of different marching sections. You can also add a crash and kick at the transition. Use the hat ends in other songs as well. Percussion loop includes african hand drum, flange shaker, leslie, mute djembe, sandpaper block, tamb, tick tock, wood drum.
disc five
Lava - 130 BPM - light, laid back, funky track with juicy, earthy loop. Some sections have corresponding "ring out sections" enabling you to use them as soft endings or pauses. Percussion loop includes bass drum, bata, caxixi, djun, leslie, long gourd drum, pods.
High Step - 126 BPM - big, grungy, rock, pop, alt drums. Nice tight verses, and crashing bashing choruses
I Love Loosely - 87 BPM - rock, pop, alt, r&b, track with a nice boingy snare. "Busy" has a fast hat pattern, The loop was recorded as a performance on 5 tracks, which can be placed in a surround configuration. A few elements were also overdubbed. Nice loose funky feel. Percussion loop includes cut cymbal, percussion L, R, Center, Left R and Right R, ringy tympani, tamb
disc six
Shake - 120 BPM - ultra funky, alt, pop, R&B drums with a cool Latin/pop loop. Features a variety of choked cymbals which can be used in other pieces as well. Percussion loop includes conga, leslie, shaker, tamb.
Slam It - 68 BPM - two different very tribal, juicy, percolating loops with talking drums and tablas, under huge pounding drums. Sounds great with a lot of room. Percussion loop includes gourd drum, little tabla, shaker, talking drum, towel brush snare.
Funk Man - 97 BPM - rock, alt, pop piece with R&B flavor. Lots of breakdown sections with open and airy cymbals. The "ghost" and "buzz" segments are small snare pickup rolls that are perfect for preceding the intro to add a little nuance. End crash 4 is very light for use with the breakdown or cymbal only segments
disc seven
Krypton - 140 BPM - fast beat with a fairly hectic loop, alt, pop, r&b. Percussion loop includes brush snare, conga, cowbell, cymbal, floppy kick, tamb, trash cymbal, trash hat)
Funk Juice - 107 BPM solid beat, funky, pop, r&b, hip hop, with earthy loop. Percussion loop includes bongo, clay bongo, conga, tamb, water bottle.
Straight Up - 130 BPM - rock, pop, alt track. Solo section 2 has no downbeat on the kick as it is a continuation of Solo 1 which "pushes" the beat (kick appears on the last upbeat of the bar)
disc eight
One Big World - 169 BPM - Nice, big and slow with worldy loop. Percussion loop includes bass drum, djun djun, log drum, seed pod, shaker, triangles, leslie.
Pulse Rate - 71.5 BPM - cool, hypnotic track with earthy loop. Percussion loop includes box, dumbek, gourd, tamb.
Rock Head - 145 BPM - pretty straight rock, with a bizarro metallic loop. Also good for funky R&B and alt/pop . Percussion loop includes china sizzle, rattle gourd, tire rim.
disc nine
Rolling - 94 BPM funky, quirky, cool track with lots of variations to play with.
Skippin - 97/194 BPM - groovy, great swing, nice snap. Some segments were edited from a long performance, and may have tom ring from the previous section. If this is problem, simply automate a mute, ride the fader, or gate the tom tracks. Lots of segments on this one as it will get a lot of use .
disc ten
Slow Trip - 70/140 BPM - slow drums with a snakey loop. Includes a break down with the top layers only, just cymbals playing fills and flourishes. Percussion loop includes brush tabla, cymbal, frame drum, gourd, leslie.
Sparse - 65 BPM - the "top" sections are a light airy breakdown with time kept on the cymbal. They flow into one another, (suggestion: start with "top" and loop "top 2" as many times as you need, then end with top crash) The "sparse" section is a long break section with light fills and flurries. When used with the loop, it really works well. Percussion loop includes conga, finger cymbal, leslie, mute bottle, shaker, talking drum, water bottle.
disc eleven
Swing Theory - 90 BPM - laid back, funky groove with unusual perc loop. Lots of motion. Percussion loop includes cymbal mute, drum, ratchet, scrape, shaker, tamb.
Tighten - 105 BPM - funky, alt pop track with cool loop. Percussion loop includes beads, hand percussion, metal, muff drum, tamb.
Towel - 90 BPM - very laid back mellow dry drums. Military flavored loop with the snare recorded on 3 tracks - try using center in the front, and left/right placed in the rear if working in surround. Ringo was said to use towels on his drums to get that cool dry Beatles drum sound. What most don't realize is that the towels he used were not big cotton towels, but English tea towels - very thin linen. Chris just happened to have a set.... while these may not sound exactly like Ringo, they have a great character. Percussion loop includes bass drum, snare C, L & R, tamb.
Plus 4 CD Roms of 16 bit Stereo Wav loop files for convenience and quick song layout (fully Acidized).
Plus 1 CD Rom containing individual drum and percussion samples in 24 bit Wav format
Plus 2 Audio CDs containing all drum and percussion tracks for easy auditioning
Total of 18 Discs - 33 songs - 743 drum segments - 133 percussion loops - Wood storage case
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