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]

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]

Creating Great Music with Drum Loops

Creating Great Music with Drum Loops When it comes to creating music, drum loops are...[Read More]

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]

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]

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]

Using a Metronome to Practice?

Using a Metronome to Practice? Five reasons you Should (Sometimes) Lose Your Metronome Introduction Let’s...[Read More]

Popular Songs Written in 3/4

Popular Examples of Music Written in 3/4 Time: A Historical Look at the Use of...[Read More]

Converting Audio Drum Loops to MIDI

Converting “Audio Drum Loops” to MIDI: Take Your Music and Songwriting to the Next Level...[Read More]

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]

5 Essential Sample Packs: Rock Drum Loops

The Ultimate Guide to Rock Drum Loops Are you struggling to find 100% live rock...[Read More]

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]

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]

Replacing Drum Sounds in Drum Loops

Take Your Drum Loops to the Next Level by Replacing Drum Sounds One of the...[Read More]

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]

Seamless Loop Transitions

Take Your Drum Loops to the Next Level: Seamless Loop Transitions Introduction We all know...[Read More]

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]