Ugritone · Drum MIDI Pack
Heartland Rock Essentials
Heartland · Mid-80s · Blue Collar
Drum performances stored as MIDI data — over 110 beats with fills across eleven named grooves, played live and mapped to General MIDI.
110+Beats with fills
11Basic grooves
84–157Approx. BPM
+And more
Meat & potatoes beats●HiHat tap dancing●Shuffles●USA rock grooves●& more
General MIDI mappingAll drums played liveMIDI data, not audio
Heartland Rock Essentials is a drum MIDI pack for heartland rock — the mid-’80s radio sound the field places between the Jersey Shore suburbs and small-town Indiana.
Over 110 beats with fills across eleven basic grooves, all played live — what the field calls meat-and-potatoes drum beats spiced with tap dancing on the hi-hat. Load them into any DAW or MIDI-capable software, point them at a drum instrument you already own, and the performances play through your sounds. The pack uses General MIDI mapping, and the beats range around 84–157 bpm.
At a Glance
- Over 110 beats with fills the field states one combined figure and does not split it
- 11 basic grooves stated as eleven and named as eleven on this page
- 84–157 bpm the stated span, which the field writes as “around”
- General MIDI mapping no proprietary drum map to install; no specific drum plug-in is named
- All drums played live the field’s own performance claim
- MIDI, not audio no drum sounds are included — you bring the instrument
Content & Detail
01The Groove List11 named▾
The grooves are printed here with the supplier’s own spelling and order. No description is given for any individual groove.
Grooves — 11 named
Authority Beat
USA Rock
Rambunct Beat
Tiny Town Beat
Hurst Good Beat
Scarecrow Beat
American Beat
Purple Houses Beat
Jim And Dan Beat
Cherry Beat
Rosamunda Shuffle
02What Is in the Packthe stated list▾
Beats with fillsOver 110, stated as one combined figure
Basic groovesEleven, all named above
PerformanceAll drums played live
TempoThe beats range around 84–157 bpm
MappingGeneral MIDI
File namesDescribed as easily navigable; the naming scheme itself is not shown
Not statedThe count of individual MIDI files, the time signatures, and any drum instrument beyond the General MIDI map
03MIDI Is Not Audiobefore you buy▾
What the files holdPerformance data — which notes are played, when, and how hard. There is no audio and there are no drum sounds in the pack
What you needA DAW or any MIDI-capable software, plus a virtual instrument — a drum plug-in or a sampler — for the notes to make a sound
System requirementsNone are stated. The files are platform-independent and run on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems
FormatMIDI
The downloadOne ZIP archive of 83,106 bytes — the weight of performance data rather than of recorded audio
A MIDI pack is bought for its timing, not for its tone. These files carry the performance; the sound arrives from whichever drum instrument is already open in your session. The notes are mapped to General MIDI, and the beats range around 84–157 bpm.
