Log in to Freesound

Problems logging in?
Don't have an account? Join now

Problems logging in?

Enter your email or username below and we'll send you a link to help you login into your account.

Back to log in

Almost there!

We've sent a verification link by email

Didn't receive the email? Check your Spam folder, it may have been caught by a filter. If you still don't see it, you can resend the verification email.

Default title

  • Sounds
  • Tags
  • Forum
  • Map
    • Sounds
    • Packs
    • Forum
    • Map
    • Tags
    • Random sound
    • Charts
    • Donate
    • Help

Epic Tribal Drums

Overall rating (193 ratings)
Mattc90

February 15th, 2015

Follow
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.

Sound illegal or offensive? Flag it!
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

Comments
Please log in to comment
Timbre

10 years, 4 months ago

You wanted to know where it's used ? : the notorious "SoundEffectsFactory" have reposted it in-isolation on a monetized-YouTube , see ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqrWboLZQYA . The “Creative Commons 0 License” permits that re-use, although you probably did not foresee that your [very good] work would be redistributed like that.

MrPancake10

10 years, 4 months ago

thx

B
buttjuice

10 years, 5 months ago

Awesome job. I used the drums for the end of a video (starts at ~6:47):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcuEplBUY4

Thanks for sharing your work.

F
falacote

10 years, 5 months ago

nice sound -thank you!

S
sorellaoba

10 years, 6 months ago

I love u, this is perfect for a video that i have made.
Thank u so much for ur work!

  • 1
  • ...
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  1. 15.6K downloads
  2. 66 comments
Attribution 4.0
You are free to share (to copy, distribute and transmit) and to remix (to adapt and modify) as long as you credit the author of the sound. Get attribution text...
Login to download
Share url:
920 x 245
Embed example, large size
481 x 86
Embed example, medium size
375 x 30
Embed example, small size
About Freesound Terms of use Privacy Cookies Developers Help Donations Blog Freesound Labs Get your t-shirt!
© 2026 Universitat Pompeu Fabra