One Year Old

By j | June 7, 2008

iBeat is one year old. If we count the beta as a fetal period. Ehm – moving on, quickly…

We’ve evolved quite a bit. When we started out, we worked all entries into a simple file browser setup; no streaming, no ID3 tags … no nothing. While probably fun for some – it was hardly effective.

So we set up flash previews, streaming, tag browsing and more. Hopefully you have enjoyed this development. We figure it’s gotten way better – but we are not there yet.

And we are trying to get better. Categorisation and accessibility to the production samples are often at the top… right now, we are prepping our second large live session. The focus will be on guitar and bass riffs and shots … so just hang in there.

The entire site is again overdue for a makeover. On this topic, we would like to get some opinions. What do you like . What don’t you like . What do you need . Keep going yourself. If you have anything to say feel free to comment below.

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Piano Chords Free

By j | May 6, 2008

The below listed piano chords are licensed free under a creative commons non-commercial license. Every piano chord pack is tagged with the appropriate license.


A lot of time has gone in to recording and organising the piano chords into high quality sample packs – which are all available in high quality lossless wave format – so please respect the license… and far more important – please let DaDeMo, who has contributed these, know what you think in the comments.

Feel free to request further piano packs. This massive piano sample section are built on only Fazioli Grand Piano.

Piano chords

This is a listing of every single free piano chord. They are available in zipped packages containing a number of shots.

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Minor Samples Highest Pitch containing:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – A#m highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Am highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Bm highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – C#m highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – D#m highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Dm highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Em highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – F#m highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Fm highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – G#m highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Gm highest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Cm highest.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Minor Samples Higher Pitch:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – A#m higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Am higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Bm higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – C#m higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Cm higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – D#m higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Dm higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Em higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – F#m higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Fm higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – G#m higher.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Gm higher.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Minor Samples Lower Pitch:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – A#m lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Am lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Bm lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – C#m lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Cm lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – D#m lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Dm lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Em lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – F#m lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Fm lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – G#m lower.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Gm lower.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Minor Samples:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Cm lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – C#m lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Dm lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – D#m lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Em lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Fm lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – F#m lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Gm lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – G#m lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Am lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – A#m lowest.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – minor chords – Bm lowest.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Min7 Samples:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – D#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Dmin7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – E#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Emin7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – F#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – G#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – G.min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – A#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Amin7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Bmin7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – C#min7.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Cmin7 High Pitch.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – Cmin7 Low Pitch.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Major Samples Low Key:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major F#.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major F.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major E.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major D#.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major D.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major C#.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major A.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major A#.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major B.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major C low.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major G#.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major G.wav

Grand Piano Chords Fazioli Major Samples Middle Pitch:
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major A middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major A# middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major B middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major C middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major C# middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major D middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major D# middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major E middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major F middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major F# middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major G middle.wav
* /Grand Piano – Fazioli – major G# middle.wav

Download the piano chords now, and start making great piano loops.

Piano Loops

If your are looking for ready made piano loops – check these piano samples. You cand find alternatives to piano – we have a diverse range synths and keys. Just check out the sample archive.

The loops are, as always, available in wave file format and cuttable so you are able to make your own synth and piano chords – for free.

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Drum Loops and Drum Shot Packs

By j | April 16, 2008

Simple access and overview of the newest drum loops and drum shot packs in the audio archive – iBeat.org has one of the best and diverse original drum collections on the net

There are two main categories when looking into our drum material:

A drum loop archive

A drum shot archive

The Drum Loops
Drum loops are tagged with BPM and to a degree type, be it acoustic, electronic, pearl, groove, uptempo and so on. They are unprocessed (at least we try to keep the audio uncompressed and without to many effects). There are of course exceptions, since we publish what ever we make or have lying around. Therefore you can find lofi, delayed and layered loops in between clean acoustic recordings.

The Drum shots
We’ve dropped the idea of standard packaging – there simply isn’t one optimal way to publish diverse collections of drum samples.

The drum shot and percussion packs consist of grouped and related files. You can find complete sets: kick, snare, hi hat, crash, toms and so forth. But also only tom packages, noise packages and everything in between.

This is why we wrap up a streamable preview, to represent what’s in the (zipped) wave files/archive. The m3u or mp3 stream will be one long file – and the zipped shot packages, consist of cut up single shots (all the way up to forty files).

Drum Loops

Drum shots

As always, our audio production material is available in mp3 and loss-less wave format. All is licensed under a Creative Commons License – Attribution-noncommercial or attribution. We consider this material to be free, but given the non-commercial license, it’s a truth with a few modifications.

All the audio here on iBeat.org is original, including drum samples, and we don’t want to have it stolen, and others making money of it by including if in sample Cd’s, publishing web sites that steal bandwidth and so on. We do however not mind writing up attribution only (along the lines of royalty free) if you have a specific project.

There is no sign up, and no limits here at iBeat … so just start downloading and producing drum beats and drum loops.

If you experience any trouble with the drum loops or drum shots, please let us know by commenting on this thread, and we will fix it up quickly.

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audio sample downloads and Mac Camino Browser compatibility issues

By p1rj1s | April 11, 2008

We noticed some are having problems pulling down the samples from the archive. In particular the wav files, when using the Camino Mac browser.

For now, we’d recommend using Safari, which has been tested and found working. On other platforms Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox are doing a pretty good job, even though there are a few funky graphical results.

If you are experiencing any problems, please do let us know, and we will look into solutions. This also goes for audio in general – we try to wrap our head around usability, but the best feedback is always from actual users.

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Free Rap Beats

By j | April 4, 2008




It shouldn’t be hard to find some use-able high quality free rap beats here.

Entries are shown as instrumentals / sessions (short but complete instrumentals) – so start rapping now.

Newest hip hop / rap entries are presented chronologically:

If you are looking for single instrument loops and beats – go here.

Free rap beats?
Please notice that the wording “free rap beats” is (mostly) for non-commercial use. The instrumental beats are available under Creative Commons licensing, so please take notice.

A question regarding usage of these free rap beats is in order. Since they are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license – some have wondered how they are free.

You are free to download the beats, and use them in any way, as long as you don’t make money from them.

In other words, it’s free rap beats because: There is no cost in downloading, there is no membership fee, non-commercial also means no royalties – we consider this free.

We are however moving on commercial usage. For now, you can write us with your project details, and if you are something like the typical music enthusiast we will type you up a royalty free / attribution license. mail at [no god damn spam] ibeat dot org. Don’t forget details and specifics.

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Forums away – If you hadn’t noticed

By j | March 17, 2008

The community boards/forums are slowly closing. At least we wont be using it for communication on a general level. Commenting is the way ahead – and we are experimenting with Tangler and other social software.

We will keep the boards running for now. Still here. The user system is no longer integrated.

Stay tuned for some audio updates ;)

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