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The tight, trustworthy staple drums you can never get enough of but always come up short on. Rock drums. Nothing more, nothing less. Basic Rock MIDI. No frills, no fillers, just down to earth rock drums. Yes, this pack comes with exactly the types of grooves and fills that you can never get enough of and that you always seem to come up short on – the tight, trustworthy staple drums that shouldn’t be missing in any rock songwriter’s toolset. “I have always been into drums that don’t get in the way of the song but rather build from the ground up. I think this pack will be extremely useful for a large group of songwriters looking for solid drum tracks”, says drummer Martin Kristoffersson.
Basic Rock Fills MIDI is a follow-up to Basic Rock MIDI and focuses entirely on the one thing you can never get enough of: fills. The little twists and turns that accentuate, ornate or make for smooth transitions in your songs – the bits and pieces that make your music elevate and transcend. “I sometimes find that drummers over-complicate things and dramatize their fills too much. I am not a complicated drummer and never aspired to be. I don’t want to get in the way of the song, just make it lift off where it truly needs to and harness it in between”, says drummer Martin Kristoffersson. Works with EZdrummer, EZdrummer 2, Superior Drummer 2 (optimized for 1 kick, 1 snare, 2 toms, 1 floor tom, 2 crash cymbals, 1 ride cymbal).
A wide and useful range of grooves for songwriters looking to expand their horizon, go outside their comfort zone or rethink what role the drums can play in a composition. There is no law that says a drum beat requires eighth notes on the hi-hat – or even a hi-hat at all”, says drummer Stephen Belans. And isn’t that what’s at the very heart of indie music? To stay out of the beaten path, to go your own way, to always question the frayed, prevalent mindsets? With the Indie Folk MIDI pack, Stephen Belans delivers a wide and useful range of grooves and fills for songwriters that are looking to expand their horizon, go outside their comfort zone or rethink what role the drums can play in a composition.
Band-in-a-Box® is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box® does the rest… Band-in-a-Box® automatically generates a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns. RealTracks add the human element of great session musicians to your songs and with 201 more RealTracks available in version 2016 there is over 2,500 hours of studio musicians’ recordings that you can use in your songs!
This collection of grooves takes you on a journey through the impressive catalogue of one of the world’s most influential and in-demand drummers: Kenny Aronoff. Having recorded in excess of 1,000 albums, performed on over 30 Grammy Award-nominated productions and sustained a prosperous career for close to 40 years, Kenny is not only a well-respected player in the session drummer business – he is the definition. Ask Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jon Bon Jovi, Lenny Kravitz, Mick Jagger or just about any of the biggest names in the past four decades of recording history and they’ll vouch for it. It there’s one thing this powerhouse of a drummer knows, it’s rock. American rock.
ScreenFlow is powerful, easy-to-use screencasting software for the Mac. With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer audio. The easy-to-use editing interface lets you creatively edit your video, and add additional images, text, music and transitions for a truly professional-looking video. The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog or directly to YouTube or Vimeo. Use ScreenFlow to create high-quality software demos, tutorials, app previews, training, presentations and more.
