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Help me find danceable Garageband drum loops that work with rock music

  • What songs have beats that just demand you hit the dance floor? Which of those beats would translate well to minimal rock/funk/dancepunk music? Where can I find those sorts of loops for Garageband or Logic Pro? My songwriting taste has always been a bit darker, but I also want people to have fun at my band's shows. For the past few years I've been into stuff like Tom Tom Club, Liquid Liquid, PiL, ESG, James Chance and Talking Heads. They incorporate funkier and sometimes tribal rhythms that I'd like to explore as I'm recording ideas at home. I don't have space to record drums at my house so I'd like to find pre-recorded loops that would be helpful with the writing process. Any feedback would be great.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c, by Janelle Monae Fuck. Just about ANYTHING by Janelle Monae.

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Take a look at http://www.ancient-future.com/atfp.html. Rhythms are easy enough to input in UltraBeat or the piano roll.

b1tr0t

http://bedroomproducersblog.com/ features more (free) sample sets and loops than you will ever be able to use.

vanar sena

Look up "Vengeance Loops" on the pirate bay. (or http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/312, they're pretty cheap). There's about 80 thousand drum loops between the sets, and a big chunk of house and trance producers use them constantly. Look up 'sample banks' in general, there are hundreds of them covering every conceivable genre.

empath

If you want classic drum samples used in hip-hop records, look up 'ultimate beats and breaks' on bittorrent (you can't buy that one any more). The full set has all the james brown samples, etc that hip-hop was built on.

empath

I should add: straight up disco beats probably wouldn't work, and I don't think the rest of the band would go for that either. Same with standard techno.

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phrontist

I find that music by artists who are highly trained dancers seems to be above-average at hitting that mark. But of the most epic dancefloor music (that consequently become nightclub cliches), the cha-cha beats seem to keep rising to the top. From Michael Jackson's Billy Jean to Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

-harlequin-

(Oh, and the sample banks aren't just 'techno loops'. A lot of them (even the vengeance ones) are just tribal drums or hi hat patterns, with no kicks. Most techno producers wouldn't use a kick loop, they need to make their own kick and bassline..

empath

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