MIDI Drum patterns

Subject: MIDI Drum patterns
From: Grey Wolf
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 12:26 PM

I'm looking for some collections of midi drum patterns. Trawling though numerous seach engines I've come up with loads of wav and mp3 loops, but am having difficulty finding simple midi patterns.

I'm looking for a selection of drum patterns in various styles that my students can use as a starting point for composition.

Any help gratefully received.

Wolf

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 12:38 PM

This isn't on the Web, but Band-in-a-Box has a really comprehesive selection of styles (and they are editable) and it is very simple to create standard midi files with any of the parts, down to the drum tracks--I use them a lot--just import them into Musicshop(which I prefer to the more complex and more recording rather than composer oriented Vision program)--however BIAB is available in both MAC and PC versions

Truth be told, you should teach your students how to write those rhythm patterns themselves, because if they are going to learn to compose anything in any of those idioms, they have to know how to write drum parts, anyway--

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: Grey Wolf
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 12:52 PM

I agree with you regarding the fact that they should learn themselves - but they have to start somewhere.

Wolf

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 02:35 PM

Actually, I was sort of thinking that you could teach them--In all seriousness, drum patterns are a good way to start writing on a sequencer--

Not that I am any great shakes at this(I am a composer, and I use the sequencer and notation programs to compose, but I don't use them to make professional recordings) but I did start sequencing by editing and programing, one measure at a time, on one of those old Roland drum machines--

I don't let it out here much(there are some in this group with a real antipathy to MIDI stuff) but I am very fond of sythesizers and sequences, and I have a little 25 cent lecture about how music boxes were the first programable machines and that the cylinders and disks contained what amount to the first programs--

Any, you should start them working from the bottom up--once you understand how to write drum patterns, everything else falls into place--

If they are like the other million people (most are kids in one way or another) who work with MIDI, once you show them how to enter a few drum beats, they'll grab it and run with it--

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:17 PM

Hi Grey Wolf,

I don't know which of these links have midi files but they all have some sort of notation or sound files for drum rhythms.

I'll probably go an check them out again now just to see what format they are in.

The taalwizard is a downloadable program with lots of rhtyhms, although mostly Indian drum rhythms I think.

Helen

Jim's Drum Rhythm Transcriptions http://www.newview.org/salem/rhythm.html

TaalWizard: Downloads http://www.taalwizard.int.ch/~borda/Downloads.htm

Index of /Music/Midi/DrumPatterns/VARIOUS http://www.mediaport.net/Music/Midi/DrumPatterns/VARIOUS/

drumming - rhythm catalogue http://www.stc.net/%7ehearth/rhythmcatalog_txt.html

Groove Archive http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/groove/

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jan 00 - 11:25 PM

Sorry, Indian as in India, & I forgot the thingies, blue, clicky

Helen

Jim's Drum Rhythm Transcriptions

http://www.newview.org/salem/rhythm.html

TaalWizard: Downloads

http://www.taalwizard.int.ch/~borda/Downloads.htm

Index of /Music/Midi/DrumPatterns/VARIOUS

http://www.mediaport.net/Music/Midi/DrumPatterns/VARIOUS/

drumming - rhythm catalogue

http://www.stc.net/%7ehearth/rhythmcatalog_txt.html

Groove Archive

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/groove/

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: Grey Wolf
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 02:33 PM

Thanks, Helen, that was helpful

Subject: RE: MIDI Drum patterns
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 23 Jan 00 - 09:06 PM

http://space.tin.it/musica/ckfer/ritmi.htm which has a very well notated selection of Brazilian, Cuban and Calypso patterns. I bookmarked this some time ago from the NoteWorthy Composer site, but I have also seen some more basic rhythms in MIDI - But where? Regards, John