Free trap drum kit

What's in the ZIP

• ▶ Kick 01 · Tight PF_TrapFoundations_Kick_01_Tight.wav
• ▶ Bass 01 · Deep PF_TrapFoundations_Bass_01_Deep.wav
• ▶ Snare 01 · Tight PF_TrapFoundations_Snare_01_Tight.wav
• ▶ Hat 01 · Tight PF_TrapFoundations_Hat_01_Tight.wav

Previews are 128 kbps MP3. The download is the original WAV, plus LICENSE.txt and SOURCES.txt.

Programming a trap beat with four sounds

1. Set the tempo between 130 and 160 BPM and write the hats in half-time thinking: steady 8ths first, then 16th and 32nd rolls only at phrase ends.
2. Put the snare on beat 3 of each bar (half-time). Everything else stays out of its way.
3. Play the bass as a melody in the track's key, and keep the kick and bass from hitting the same low frequencies at once. Either shorten the bass under the kick or sidechain it.
4. Give the bass some saturation so it is still heard on phone speakers. A clean sine under 60 Hz is inaudible on most of them.

Longer walkthrough: How to saturate and tune trap 808s for small speakers.

Can I use these in a release?

Yes. Every sound here comes from a recording released under CC0 1.0 (public domain). Use it in commercial tracks, beats and videos, with no royalties and no credit required. The one thing you can't do is resell the sounds themselves as a sample pack. SOURCES.txt in the ZIP lists the original recording for each file. More on licensing.