Hello,
I just got a Beatbuddy and I’m wondering what the best way to find beats for songs is? I’m talking about songs that aren’t on the Song Matcher page. I’m not trying to create new beats, I’d just like to use the premium library to get as close as possible to a solid useable drum track for tunes I play.
Thanks!
There are probably many ways that users come up with a beat that works best for them. Try this:
Don’t be discouraged if you can’t come up with a suitable part at the beginning. You’ll probably have to preview several parts across several beats to get what you’re looking for.
You’ll probably have to find different parts to suit verse, chorus, bridge and outro. If you bought the complete Premium Library (PLC)to include the Groove Monkee package, you’ll have a lot to wade thru initially. Some users try to keep it simple by using the beats found in the Blues, Rock or Country genres. As they gain experience, they then start digging thru the PLC stuff.
Good luck and let us know what ends up working for you. I’ve attached a zip file with settings that users have shared both on this forum and Facebook:
Beats matcher files.zip (1.1 MB)
Cool, thank you for the info. I’ll check it out.
Thanks for this, it there a tutorial on how to use some of these?
I get that the .sng files are songs, and most of them are short loops, but then some are really long, like whole songs
I get that there’s drum files associated with songs to get them to sound right
what I have no idea about are these DOP, OPB, OPBk files… I’ve tried downloading some tunes from this link and they just sound weird, I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.
Looks like they are just acronyms, like a form of version control.
Follow up question: I see a lot of weird drum kit names recommended for songs, is it worth getting some kind of expansion pack for the pedal?
I want to use it for practicing tunes and playing simple small gigs with just guitar and vocals. I don’t want to create my own beats or go down that path. Just want to learn enough to be able to navigate the tools and find good sounds.
To answer this question, you need some background. There are two types of BeatBuddy content, default and user-created. The former is the multi-part songs provided by Singular Sound; the latter consists of songs and drum kits created by users. The default beats require the user to interact with the pedal (some call it “tap dancing”) while the user-created songs require a single tap to start and play the song all of the way through completion.
You can think of the default content beats as the parts and pieces of an Erector set or Lincoln Logs that you can use to build or shape your songs.
To hear the user-created content as intended by the user that put it together, you have to find the drum kit that was suggested by the user—otherwise, it may sound weird.
Click on the blue text to read more about acronyms: * Guide to BBMO acronyms
See above.
Nothing wrong with having more options with additional drum sets—that’s where the Boutique drums come in. They should work particularly well with the default content.
For the user-created (mostly one-press) songs, you’ll definitely need to learn how to search the forum for the user-created kits, download, import, activate and select the kit that best suits the song (using either the BBMO or the BeatBuddy Manager (BBM)).
Take some time and dive into the BBMO user manual to learn more about the system. Probably well worth your time and effort: * BeatBuddy Manager Online (BBMO) printer-friendly user manual