What are our best drum loops, according to Beta Monkey users?
It’s tough to disagree with the choices our customers make. Based on years of sales data as well as the volume of user-submitted music inspired by our most popular drum loops, here are some of the picks for customer favorites. The “best of the best” if you will and a great place to start for various musical genres.
So, here you are… the most popular Beta Monkey drum loops our customers have been using and abusing over the years. The “Greatest Hits” of grooves everyone wants in their music.
CUSTOMER FAVORITE BLUES
12/8 grooves, shuffle beats, and boogies, it's all here in Drum Werks XII. Quite possibly, the most versatile and extensive collection of blues drum loops you'll find anywhere. 650+ grooves and fills of essential blues rhythms.
An extensive resource for 12/8 blues drum loops. With a mix of earthy drum sounds as well as fat and greasy drum grooves, this a very versatile collection for classic blues-rock and blues drum tracks. 100% Live, authentic 12/8 and shuffles.
Live, acoustic, and swinging shuffle drum loops to create blues, folk, and country-rock drum tracks with 12/8, shuffles, and swing feels. An earthy roots sound and vibe will inspire folk and bluegrass styles as well.
Drum Werks XXIV: Slow 6-8 Drum Loops offers versatile 6/8 drumming with straight 8th and shuffle feels. Ranging from 30 bpm to 60 bpm to inspire your songwriting with live 6/8 time drum loops.
Featuring traditional 12/8 blues, Charleston shuffles, and other shuffle drum beats, Drum Werks XXIII brings 100% live and authentic shuffle drum loops to your songwriting sessions and sample library.
BEST ROCK BEATS
This rock drum loop bundle includes all six (6) drum sample libraries from the L.A. Sessions Series. Over 4 GB of rock drums recorded live in one of Los Angeles' favorite drum rooms by two of the town's top studio drummers.
This hard rock and metal drum loop library bundle was recorded in the cradle of metal and thrash: The Bay Area. The Power Combo Pack includes Double Bass Mania VII and Drum Werks II: Reloaded together for over 2 GB of loops and drum samples.
Retro, Vintage
Classic Backbeats II: Live studio drums for rock and roll, MoTown, 60s rock, songwriters
From rockabilly to British invasion, R&B to early garage rock – this one's got the iconic 50s and 60s grooves in one meticulously recorded vintage drum loops and samples pack. A vintage Ludwig Black Oyster drumkit bring the pure, explosive power of rock's golden age to your modern productions.
Hard-hitting classic rock drum loops are a must-have for rock guitarists and songwriters. These 100% live, acoustic drum samples were recorded in one of L.A.'s premier drum rooms and span from 50 to 160 bpm. Drum Werks XVI is an 80-proof shot of pure rock-n-roll adrenaline.
Hard rock drum loops for for use in classic, modern, or heavy instrumental songwriting styles. Nearly 500 riff-hungry downloadable grooves for hard rock songwriters and guitarists. Build hard-hitting rock drum tracks in all DAWs and samplers.
Powerful rock drum loops inspired by the iconic drum tracks of AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Toto, Van Halen, and ZZ Top. Want the most legendary and iconic rock drum tracks ever recorded in your music? Add Drum Werks XVII to your samples library.
BEST METAL GROOVES
This hard rock and metal drum loop library bundle was recorded in the cradle of metal and thrash: The Bay Area. The Power Combo Pack includes Double Bass Mania VII and Drum Werks II: Reloaded together for over 2 GB of loops and drum samples.
Insane metal drum loops for modern death, deathcore, djent grooves with a powerful, high-definition drum mix. Double Bass Mania VII is 'the' sample pack for loud, intense modern metal.
Pure classic heavy metal with a modern mix. Double Bass Mania I: Reloaded features 1300+ drum loops and drumkit samples. Create new metal drum tracks with these live and powerful drums.
With 800+ double bass drum grooves, fills, and one-shots samples, Double Bass Mania II unleashes a relentless onslaught of heavy metal drum loops. Brutally fast, furious, and relentless.
Thick. Heavy. Swinging. Think Black Sabbath swing but in a modern-sounding drum mix. Add some swinging heaviness to your tracks with these doom metal drum loops. Undeniably brutal triplet swing for doom, stoner, funeral, epic and sludge metal styles.
Create new metal drum tracks with these powerful metal drum samples. Over 1000 power metal drum loops and drum samples in the style of Pantera, Lamb of God, Strapping Young Lad, Gojira and more. if you write the heavy stuff, you need this sample pack in your arsenal.
MOST POPULAR ODD TIME and ODD METER
Features over 500 odd time drum loops in 5/4, 5/8 7/4, 7/8 and 9/8. Odd Time Meltdown will get you thinking differently about your music and playing. For Rock, Prog-Rock, and Fusion.
Odd Time Meltdown II features odd meter drum loops in 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, 7/8. Get your groove on in 5, 7 and beyond, Odd Time Meltdown II will take your music beyond common time. Recorded at one of Los Angeles' premier recording rooms. For Rock, Prog-Rock, and Fusion.Â
Unleash your music beyond 4/4 with Odd Time Meltdown III—a cohesive collection of odd time drum loops in 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, and 7/8 that delivers the human feel and musical versatility of one of L.A.'s top session drummers. Transform your songwriting from predictable to extraordinary!
The best country drum loops aren't programmed—they're performed. Pure Country IV captures one of Nashville's top drummers laying down 340+ country drum samples in 3/4 and 6/8 time.For songwriters who demand that Nashville sound, Pure Country IV: Nashville Brushes delivers. Because real country needs real soul.
Odd Time Meltdown IV is exclusively odd time drum loops in 3/4, 5/4, 7/4, and 7/8. With intense uptempo rock attitude, push the energy of your fusion tracks with musical interpretations of four different time signatures.
FAVORITE COUNTRY SAMPLES
The Rocking Nashville Sessions Modern Country Drum Loops Bundle features four (4) drum libraries of shuffles, swings, 12/8 blues, trainbeats, ballads, and country-rock grooves. Over 2 GB of essential country drum samples in one versatile bundle for serious songwriters.
Get that modern Nashville sound with over 500 live country drum loops, all recorded with authentic feel in one of Nashville's best drum rooms. You don't have to travel to "Music City" to get authentic country drum tracks.
Get authentic Nashville drum tracks in your music: 400+ brush drum loops and drum samples, featuring the legendary Yamaha Recording Custom drum kit in one of Music City's finest rooms. Trainbeats, ballads, Johnny Cash backbeats, and more
The best country drum loops aren't programmed—they're performed. Pure Country IV captures one of Nashville's top drummers laying down 340+ country drum samples in 3/4 and 6/8 time.For songwriters who demand that Nashville sound, Pure Country IV: Nashville Brushes delivers. Because real country needs real soul.
Live, acoustic, and swinging shuffle drum loops to create blues, folk, and country-rock drum tracks with 12/8, shuffles, and swing feels. An earthy roots sound and vibe will inspire folk and bluegrass styles as well.
CUSTOMER FAVORITE JAZZ DRUM TRACKS
400+ jazz drum loops featuring live drums from 100 bpm to 325 bpm. This jazz loop collection is all about traditional jazz, focused on of essential timekeeping grooves. For anyone writing Traditional Jazz, Bebop, or Swing.
Jazz Essentials II offers 2 GB of complete "live takes to inspire your jazz drum tracks. Covering traditional jazz, Latin jazz, 3/4 jazz, and blues-jazz swing, this pack is as live and swinging as it gets.
Drum multi-tracks for jazz standards, Jazz Essentials III delivers 3.3 GB of live jazz drum tracks with seven individual drum tracks. Pure. Live. Traditional Jazz. Mix your drums just how you want it!
Jazz Essentials IV delivers 3.2 GB of live jazz drum tracks. These multi-track drum tracks offer fifteen drum performances of many popular jazz standards song forms.
Over 1000 funk drum loops to inspire any funk project needing some serious grooves. With a wide range of syncopated beats inspired by the most iconic funk tracks, you'll get all the funk drum samples you need to make it funky!
BEST-SELLING FUNK DRUMS
Get the funk drum tracks you've always wanted with this massive collection of funk drum loops, breaks, fills, and samples. This 2 GB bundle includes Rock Hard Funk I, Rock Hard Funk II, and Rock Hard Funk III.
Over 1000 funk drum loops to inspire any funk project needing some serious grooves. With a wide range of syncopated beats inspired by the most iconic funk tracks, you'll get all the funk drum samples you need to make it funky!
Get the Motown grooves you want with the vibe you crave with these infectious RnB drum samples. Drum Werks XIII includes 100s of Motown-inspired beats from 60 BPM to 150 BPM with an old-school drum mix.
Add instant snap to your drum tracks with the crisp attack of piccolo snare. Over 300 acoustic drum loops perfect for modern alt-rock, pop, and funk-rock songwriting.
Funk drum loops inspired by P-Funk 70's-style funk, Motown, and RnB. Get that classic funk feel with a modern edge. Over 400 funk beats and fills to inspire any songwriter looking for "the" groove!
OTHER POPULAR DRUM STYLES SERIES
These reggae drum loops were inspired by the reggae tracks you know and love. The sample pack features live drum beats for traditional reggae and rock-reggae styles, including "one drop", Rocker, and Stepper rhythms.
Drum Werks XXII Ska Drums offers a wicked collection of live ska drum loops perfect for any ska and reggae-influenced music like Drum & Bass, dub or Dubstep. Nothing but 100% live ska drumming performances.
Percussion
Studio Percussion Toolbox features nearly 200 percussion loops in the most requested world percussion styles. Includes samples of congas, bongos, surdos, pandeiros, shakers, udus, and rainsticks.
Drum Werks XIV features Brazilian rhythms, loops and percussion samples for classic Bossa and Samba grooves as well as Xote, Baiao, Maracatu rhythms.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Drum Werks X is a complete songwriting package for aggressive music, featuring over 650 slamming punk drum loops. Straight-ahead 2's and 4's, aggressive tom patterns, and more. Drum Werks X features punk beats from 100 BPM to 280 BPM.