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Epic Tribal Drums

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Mattc90

February 15th, 2015

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Music > Solo percussion
Drum Samples

This is a small loop following the culmination of hours of recording and mixing various tribal drum samples (and kitchen implements) as well as field recordings and a couple of reverb impulse responses.

This particular loop began with the humble less than spectacular sound of me hitting a bucket with a wooden spoon which is now somewhat buried in the mix.

The idea was to layer, mix, pan and re-pitch samples together that complemented each other to create the sound of a huge tribal drum performance, similar to the style used in many video game and movie scores, most notably that of Hans Zimmer. There are also a couple of subtle layers blended in from Spitfire Audio's HZ percussion library.

I hope you enjoy it!

Please comment or message me with what you do with this loop, I'd love to hear!

For some reason the preview sounds like it has some strange transcoding audio artefacts, however if you download the original wav file you'll find it pristine and clear as I intended.

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Awesome
Bass
Big
Campbell
Drum
Epic
Field
Hand
Hanz
Hit
Hits
Huge
Kick
Loop
Matt
Percussion
Recording
Reverb
Room
Roomy
Sample
Soundtrack
Tribal
Tribe
Zimmer
Zulu

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:15.780

File size

2.7 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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apeloverage

10 months ago

This rhythm seems to be about 110 beats per minute, in case anyone needs to know that.

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kurosnero

1 year, 8 months ago

Thank you for this. I've used this back in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtjPytFc5Ao

kirmm

1 year, 11 months ago

awesome

SilverIllusi...

3 years, 6 months ago

This is downright electrifying, thanks so much for your hard work on this!

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Charikleia-mari

3 years, 11 months ago

I Loved your sound it is exactly what I was looking for! I used it on a teaser for my new cover which was banned from youtube! Thank you!

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