Ugritone · Drum MIDI Pack
Thrash Metal Essentials
Thrash · 1980s · Skank Beats
Drum performances stored as MIDI data — 117 beats and fills across thirteen named grooves, played live and mapped to General MIDI.
117Beats & fills
13Basic grooves
138–205Approx. BPM
+And more
Double bass●Skank beats●Breakdowns●Syncopated rhythms●& more
General MIDI mappingAll drums played liveMIDI data, not audio
Thrash Metal Essentials is a drum MIDI pack for ’80s thrash — fast, intense and precise drumming that the field traces to the punk and hardcore scenes.
117 beats and fills — an exact figure, not a floor — across thirteen basic grooves, all played live. 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 138–205 bpm.
At a Glance
- 117 beats and fills stated exactly — no “over” in front of the figure
- 13 basic grooves stated as thirteen and named as thirteen on this page
- 138–205 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 List13 named▾
The grooves are printed here with the supplier’s own spelling and order. No description is given for any individual groove.
Grooves — 13 named
Triplet Back Beat
Slow Ride Back Beat
Triplet DBass Back Beat
Reverse Up Beat
Toxic Waltz
Breakdown
DBass Upbeat
Basic Combat Beat
Double Skank Beat
Half Double Skank Beat
Slow DoubleBass Back Beat
D Bass Up Beat
Thrash Beat
02What Is in the Packthe stated list▾
Beats and fills117 — stated exactly, with no “over”
Basic groovesThirteen, all named above
PerformanceAll drums played live
TempoThe beats range around 138–205 bpm
MappingGeneral MIDI
File namesDescribed as easily navigable; the naming scheme itself is not shown
A crossed nameBoth the prose and the Specs of this field say Thrash Metal Anthology, while the title on the shop reads Thrash Metal Essentials — the sibling pack’s field carries the mirror-image slip. Both sentences are the vendor’s
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 129,800 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 138–205 bpm.
