Category Archives: Tutorials and Knowledge
Educational content designed to help you maximize your use of drum loops and samples. From production techniques to creative applications, learn how to integrate live acoustic drums into your music workflow and take your tracks to the next level.
How To Make Drum Loops Sound Better: 7 Tips That Make Your Drum Tracks Better
How To Make Drum Loops Sound Better: 7 Tips That Make Your Drum Tracks Better...[Read More]
Jul
Midi Drum Loops or Live Audio Drum Loops?
Should Musicians Use Midi Drum Loops or Live Audio Drum Loops? Songwriters without access to...[Read More]
Jul
Creating Great Music with Drum Loops
Creating Great Music with Drum Loops When it comes to creating music, drum loops are...[Read More]
Dec
7 Essential EQ Techniques to Improve Your Mixes (Part II)
7 Essential EQ Mixing Techniques Used by Pro Recording Engineers and Why You Should Use...[Read More]
Sep
7 Essential EQ Techniques to Improve Your Mixes (Part I)
7 Essential EQ Mixing Techniques Used by Pro Recording Engineers and Why You Should Use...[Read More]
Sep
What are the best drum sample packs?
What are the best drum sample packs to improve your songwriting? For starters, let’s be...[Read More]
Apr
Using a Metronome to Practice?
Using a Metronome to Practice? Five reasons you Should (Sometimes) Lose Your Metronome Introduction Let’s...[Read More]
Apr
Popular Songs Written in 3/4
Popular Examples of Music Written in 3/4 Time: A Historical Look at the Use of...[Read More]
Apr
Converting Audio Drum Loops to MIDI
Converting “Audio Drum Loops” to MIDI: Take Your Music and Songwriting to the Next Level...[Read More]
Mar
Download Online Drum Loops? Three Reasons Why You Should.
Why Download Online Drum Loops? In this article, we examine three benefits of downloading online...[Read More]
Jul
5 Essential Sample Packs: Rock Drum Loops
The Ultimate Guide to Rock Drum Loops Are you struggling to find 100% live rock...[Read More]
Jul
Looking for 3/4 and 6/8? A Quick Guide!
No one does anything usable in 3/4 and 6/8! Does Beta Monkey cover these time...[Read More]
Mar
Popular Examples of Music Written in 6/8
Some of our Favorite Songs in 6/8 Time While drum loops in 6/8 have a...[Read More]
Aug
Replacing Drum Sounds in Drum Loops
Take Your Drum Loops to the Next Level by Replacing Drum Sounds One of the...[Read More]
Jul
Five Ways to Process Your Drum Loops to Stand Out from the Crowd
Five Ways to Process Drum Loops to Stand Out from the Crowd or: You Don’t...[Read More]
Jan
Seamless Loop Transitions
Take Your Drum Loops to the Next Level: Seamless Loop Transitions Introduction We all know...[Read More]
Jul
How to Use Drum Loops to Energize Your Songwriting
How to Use Drum Loops to Energize Your Songwriting Let’s face it, we’ve all been...[Read More]
Aug