The MIDI grooves included in Real Country cover a wide variety of styles that work with two beats, waltzes, shuffles, train beats, ballads, bluegrass styles, country swing, and country rock and "Wailin" styles at a wide variety of tempos. This collection covers everything from traditional to modern country beats. Real Country also works great for other genres of music.
Drums in country music are a support roll, and all too often it's not practical to grab a drummer and hit the studio when you come up with an idea for a new tune. Real Country makes it easy to grab the appropriate groove and start recording quickly when inspiration strikes. Perfect for demos and final project recordings alike.
Lady A is a renowned country band formed in 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of three main members: Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley (vocals and guitar) are the lead singers and Dave Haywood is a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, piano and other instruments. Their distinctive sound blends contemporary country with elements of pop music, creating a unique style that has won over a wide audience.
The Yale-Classical Archives Corpus (YCAC) contains harmonic and rhythmic information for a dataset of Western European Classical art music. This corpus is based on data from classicalarchives.com, a repository of thousands of user-generated MIDI representations of pieces from several periods of Western European music history. The YCAC makes available metadata for each MIDI file, as well as a list of pitch simultaneities ("salami slices") in the MIDI file. Metadata include the piece's composer, the composer's country of origin, date of composition, genre (e.g., symphony, piano sonata, nocturne, etc.), instrumentation, meter, and key. The processing step groups the file's pitches into vertical slices each time a pitch is added or subtracted from the texture, recording the slice's offset (measured in the number of quarter notes separating the event from the file's beginning), highest pitch, lowest pitch, prime form, scale-degrees in relation to the global key (as determined by experts), and local key information (as determined by a windowed key-profile analysis). The corpus contains 13,769 MIDI files by 571 composers yielding over 14,051,144 vertical slices. This paper outlines several properties of this corpus, along with a representative study using this dataset.
Music Online: Popular Music Library from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.