It has been a while since my last post due to traveling around the West coast on tour. During that time I spent what free time I had on this new and exciting midi collection. Before I gave away the free Dubstep midi collection, and this time and I am leveling it up with the Tribal Rhythms!
Below is a collection of Tribal Rhythms. They are traditional rhythms used in lot of Arabic music. The rhythms are used with tabla and dumbek as well as other drums. I took live recordings and translated them to MIDI patterns.
I wrote out the rhythms as midi and collected them all together. This pack has 102 rhythms. Since it is all MIDI files it can be used with any DAW. They are all organized with there traditional names. Using this as a bases for your drum beats you can create some complex and unique patterns.

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hi, thank you very much for the midis
Love all your free midis man! Thanks for spending all this time and then just sharing it.
Totally welcome! This took me like a month to make. Lots of research I used for my new upcoming album. Glad to share it forward.
Thanks man! Glad to share it. Took me like 2 months to write it all out so I am happy to share it as a resource to others.
A is on hit yo keep up the good work and be bless.
Many many thanks for your arabic midis. don`t you know where to find indian tabla rhythms in midi for free?
THX m8
Yo Bro, thanx for the shared midi’s.
Just looked in to the first called Adnan. Well, since I don’t know much about arabic and tribal rhythm, other then what I can hear on recordings.
I’m wondering two things:
– how this rhythm should be counted is 6/8 really the count? I see a pattern which is 33/8 or 16/8 and 17/8.
what would be most correct in order to understand the original rhythm?
– which one of the figures is the lower or higher? Which is the typical original drum type (cymbals, snare-like, bass drums etc.)?
a lot of question, really just because i find it super interesting, and wan’t to find out how to use and understand other rhythm structures in order to use in electronic music..
Hey what’s the album you were researching it all for? Is it out yet?
Be greeted from Copenhagen, Denmark in the north of Europe.
Hi guys,
I loaded this pack in my Live 9, but I can´t hear nothing. Could you please help me fix this problem.
Thank you in advance.
i like some arabic music style
Hello I did down load them and i try to play them on a midi drum Machine sound weird on one instrument play and not good any Ideas ?
Cool
i like some arabic music style
Poff me sirvio de mucho :D
Thanks!
thx
thx for midis
thanks
amazing job.
using a gm kit still sounds good..
due to the detailed velocity
thank you
:)
Nice stuff…..
your work is appreciated, many of us it seems are very grateful for people like you
Thanks!
many thanks…
Thank u!!
Hi, Thank you very much 4 this midi files :)
Im very gratefull
Best regards
I keep getting an error when unzipping the file. Is there another download?
Try cleaning your cache and doing it again. Sometimes it gets corrupt while you are downloading it.
Hello,
Nothing happen when we join your mailing list to have this free midi pack :(
Perhaps you could send us directly by email ?
Thanks,
Well, if you are signed in and go to this page you should see the download. Do you not?
Thanks !
That’s awesome for you to do this. Thank you, i’m about to check it out. Much love.
Thanks
thanks
hi,
nice work, keep up good things..
thanks
nice ~~
Nice articles good work keep it up
Great thought love it
Thanks !
lol at the dumbass trying to figure out why he can’t get any sound out of this.
Thanks Subaqueous, I will pay you if any of these end up in a track of mine, and I urge others to do the same.
Thanks your work is appreciated
There are some really great ideas here.
Very nice
Thanks for the great effort, we appreciate it!
Before proceeding to making the payment, could you please share the names of the rhythms?
I’d like to know if there any samples too.
Many thanks!