Which library contains “train beat” groove heard in “Stop This Train” by John Mayer?

[rpk]

Hi, my name’s Rich. I’m a songwriter and must admit upfront, I’m a self-trained novice when it comes to using my toontrack products.

I’d like to build a track on a song, but the current libraries that I own do not contain the groove that I want to use. I’m a “drag and dropper” when it comes to building my drum tracks, so I depend on the built-in libraries.

Specifically, I’m looking for the exact same “Train Groove,” brushes and all, as heard in John Mayer’s “Stop This Train.” I own the Nashville EZX and Music City SDX, but need a more subtle, sweeping train beat version than what they offer. Again, more like the drums you hear in “Stop This Train.”

Could anybody point me in the direction of the correct EZ or SD library to purchase? Does it even exist?
Thanks,
Rich

Rich Karg

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[Whitten]

You need to select brushes (tools) and edit all your velocities to be extremely low, especially bass drum (and soft beater on kick?).

[Jon Quintero]

seems it’s a “two-beat” not so much a train beat. I’m a songwriter as well, in Nashville…it’s been very difficult to find a premade train “loop”. maybe in the two beat section of the Nashville drummer pack might help.

what i ended up doing was have a session drummer record about 20 bars of different train grooves and pick the best 2 measures of each and use those as loops.

best of luck, its a great groove

[Jon Quintero]

seems it’s a “two-beat” not so much a train beat. I’m a songwriter as well, in Nashville…it’s been very difficult to find a premade train “loop”. maybe in the two beat section of the Nashville drummer pack might help.

what i ended up doing was have a session drummer record about 20 bars of different train grooves and pick the best 2 measures of each and use those as loops.

best of luck, its a great groove

[Dan Maynard]

I too get kind of fustrated with some of the grooves. A lot of them seem like drum solos and have no place in a song. I did find a shuffle beat in the Nashville EZX that works pretty well but haven’t been succesful finding a simple boom chuck boom chuck with 8th or 16th highhats. Maybe the programmers could come up with some real world beats. After all I think that is why most of us bought this software.

Just A Simple Guitar Player

[Jon Quintero]

Just downloaded the Americana EZX. Theres some pretty cool train beats (named Amtrak…haha) with a couple great options.

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