Having plenty of drum sounds at your disposal is absolutely essential to your production workflow, downloading free drum kits for Logic Pro X, Ableton or whatever DAW you use is one of the simplest ways to achieve variety in the sounds at your disposal.
Having quality drum samples is as important for having an amazing track as eating and drinking is to stay alive.
There longer you don’t eat the weaker you’ll become if you have weak drum sounds your track will eventually die in people’s memories and won’t have much if any replay value.
This is all more the case if you produce urban music like Hip Hop, Trap or Lo-fi and if you have weak drum sounds I can almost guarantee that your track will not do very well.
However, the number one problem with downloading free drum kits is that there are so many out there to choose from, I myself have felt intimidated at the thought of digging through thousands of sounds just to find the right ones for my track.
This is where this list comes in, I myself have been producing for over 15 years and with so much experience behind me, I can comfortably say that I have the confidence to believe that I have perfected my ability to spot a quality drum sound with all the tonal and sonic qualities most producers are looking for.
Free Drum Kits from Your Local Musician
BOOMBOX – FREE Vintage Hip Hop Samples
Your Local Musician presents BOOMBOX a HUGE collection of 70 FREE processed Vintage Hip Hop Samples, Drum Kits, and Chopped Samples ready to flip! 30 Midi drum patterns influenced by the sound of the ’90s.
Here’s What You’ll Find In The Box:
- 250 MB Content
- 24 Bit 44.1KHZ
- 70 Vintage Hip Hop Drum Kits
- 10 Drum Loops
- 30 Midi Drum Patterns
- 14 Chopped Sample
21 Savage Drum Kit
What’s Included?
- 7 808’s
- 7 Chants
- 37 Claps
- 87 Hi-Hats
- 71 Kicks
- 27 Percussion Sounds
- 230 SFX (Hard-Hitting Trap beats need high-quality SFX, so we’ve included over 230!)
- 13 Snaps
- 43 Snares
The Fine China – FREE RNB Drum Kit
The Fine China Drum Kit includes:
- 22 Claps
- 10 FX
- 26 Hi-Hats
- 30 Kicks
- 4 Percussion Sounds
- 5 Snaps
- 15 Snares
- 11 Vocal Chants
The Travvy Kit – FREE Travis Scott Drum Kit
The Travis Scott Drum Kit Includes:
- 5 808’s
- 10 Chants
- 20 Claps
- 5 Crashes
- 15 FX
- 20 Hi-Hats
- 20 Kicks
- 5 Percussion Sounds
- 5 Snares
The Doctors Collection | FREE Dr. Dre Inspired Drum Kits
Specifically Including
The Shady Kit:
- 4 Kicks
- 12 Snares
- 7 Hi-Hats
- 3 FX
The Death Row Sound Pack:
- 51 Kicks
- 51 Snares
- 51 Hi-Hats
- 51 FX
Aftermath Sound Kit:
- 51 Kicks
- 51 Snares
- 51 Hi-Hats
- 51 FX
AnDre Drum Kit Vol 1:
- 51 Kicks
- 51 Snares
- 51 Hi-Hats
- 51 FX
AnDre Drum Kit Vol 2:
- 51 Kicks
- 51 Snares
- 51 Hi-Hats
- 51 FX
The Luger Kit – FREE Trap Drums
The Luger Kit Includes:
- 3 808’s
- 4 FX’s
- 6 Hats
- 3 Kicks
- 4 Percussion Sounds
- 4 Snares + 1 Clap
- 3 Vox Samples
The 9th Kit – FREE Boom Bap Drum Samples
The Kit Includes:
- 145 Kicks
- 1 Choppable Loop
- 30 Claps
- 33 Cymbals
- 110 Hi-Hats
- 42 Percussion Sounds
- 32 Shakers
- 169 Snares
- 5 FX
Warm 808 Bass Samples
This FREE Warm 808 Bass Samples pack contains 500 royalty-free 808 sounds giving you everything you need to be able to make smooth Hip Hop, Future Bass, Trap, and more.
Get creative and go beyond by adding your favorite synths such as Nexus, Sylenth, Massive & Alchemy.
Warm 808’s is influenced by the likes of OVO, Dreamville, and many other modern people and genres.
Finding the perfect 808 can be a difficult task for any musician or producer, with our pack of 500 premium quality 808 bass samples the right 808 is right here right now!
- 500 808 Bass Samples!
- 1.5 GB!
- Instant Download!
FREE Drum Kits From The Producer Community
LifeStyleDidIt – Lofi Lovers Kit
Lofi Lovers is a drum kit designed by Producer and YouTuber LifestyleDidIt that is packed with quality samples designed for Lofi beats.
LifeStyleDidIt – Ammo Drum Kit
Ammo Drum Kit is another excellent kit from LifeStyleDidIt featuring hard-hitting drum sounds.
The Recruit Drum Kit is a collection of drum sounds from Producer and YouTuber Simon Servida containing smackalishious drum samples.
80s Retro Futuristic Drum Pack
Want a trip back to the 80s? The free 80s Retro Futuristic Drum Pack is created for producers who make songs with an old school feel.
This kit includes high-quality samples ranging from snares, kicks, hats, claps, falls, risers, TR-808 drums, and much more. If you are creating 80s inspired tracks, this is the kit for you!
A popular hip-hop drum kit on the list, the Lil Wane Drum Kit will have you making hits like Lollipop and Go DJ instantly!
This free drum kit has a more modern feel to it compared with other packs with contemporary kicks, snares, hi-hats, and unique hip-hop samples inspired by some of the biggest artists in this music industry.
The Alchemist Drum Kit was inspired by musicians such as Dj Premier, Mobb Deep, Havoc and 9th Wonder. Along with a drum kit, this free hip-hop sample pack also comes with Alchemist sounds and samples.
The kit is comprised of hip-hop drums, claps, snares and hi-hats, and many modern hip-hop sounds.
Ideally suited for metal, rock and pop productions, the MT Power Drum Kit is a free drum sampler offering a variety of high-quality realistic sounding drum effects.
This drum kit is unique, compared to other rock drum kits because the samples have already been pre-processed with compressors and EQs to make them ready to be used straight away in your next mix!
If you are looking to produce tracks that have vintage hip-hop and R&B feel or want to get into Lo-Fi music, then this is the free drum kit for you.
This library is packed with drum samples, hi-hats, dirty snares and dusty kicks and a range of different samples that give of a classic hip-hop vibe
West Coast Drum Kit brings the California ambience right to your studio with production-ready drum samples. This free drum kit includes sounds that are inspired by rap music in the early 2000s from the west coast rap scene.
Another popular free hip-hop drum pack, the Wu-Tang Clan Kit comes with all the drum sounds and effects you need to create old-school hip-hop and boom style tracks in the style of the Wu-Tang Clan. Expect to find a huge collection of vintage kicks, snares and percussion sound to be used however you choose.
Dreaming of making smash hits like CREAM and Gravel Pit? Download the Wu-Tang Clan Kit now!
With over 70 “monster” 808 sounds and hundreds of kicks, snares, claps and finger snaps, this free drum kit can be used for any genre of music. The Line of Legends Real Drum Kit is your one-stop-shop for all the drum sounds you could ever imagine!
The Fornuto ‘Zone 6’ Drum Kit from ProducerGrind is a collection of 21 essential drum samples for making hard-hitting trap beats, Inspired by Zone 6 East Atlanta rappers & the producers that have crafter their sounds.
Fornuto ‘Big Pharma’ Perc One-Shot
The Big Phrama Percussion One-Shot Kit contains 60 rare and unreleased one-shots designed for Trap and Lo-fi, this is not your traditional drum kit it is strictly focused on percussion sounds.
This free lo-fi hip hop drum kit is a compilation of drum and percussion sounds which was used to create their Asparagus Lofi Album.
Rupture for Mac & PC is a lightweight 100% FREE Virtual Drum Machine Developed by Dopekitz Packed Full of High Quality, Hard Hitting, Royalty Free Virtual Drum Kits!
AS Free Collection by Acoustic Samples
The AS Free Collection is a bundle of 5 instruments that you can use for free.
Dubstep Empire Drum Kit is the ultimate arsenal of free drum samples that will blend perfectly with dubstep, drum and bass, house, moombahton and other production flavors.
Here’s an older drum kit created and released for free by Grammy-nominated music producer Johnny Juliano. Trap Ghosts Drum Kit comes loaded with all the trap drum samples you need on your next beat.
Scott Storch Drum Kit is a premium collection of free drum samples that were made to replicate Scott Storch’s style of drum sounds when creating his popular beats.
The Ultimate Boom Bap Drum Kit is the go-to drum sample library designed for boom-bap and hip-hop beats. This free drum kit contains a huge variety of one-shot drum samples inspired by legendary hip-hop producers such as J. Dilla, The Alchemist, 9th Wonder, DJ Premier, and others.
This free kit includes Over 30 One Shot drum kits and over 10 MIDI Melody Loops.
How To Kill The Devil Drum & Sample Pack
This pack contains some killer drums and samples ready for you to flip.
More than 90 Samples. Kicks, snares, hats, 808s, percs, FXs, Vox and extras. + 13 Drill Drum loops. All sounds are pre-mixed! Just throw it into your project and start cooking up some heat!
Free Jazz Funk Drum Sample Library
Real Jazz Funk Drums played by real jazz drummers.
Sonic Sound Supply has created a limited edition drum kit, and you can get it for free from Rekkerd.
The new Drum Depot series Brute Drums features a collection of 24 drum kits created with the Drum Brute analog drum machine.
Basic Rhythm 808 Bass Vol 1 and 2
The Basic Rhythm 808 Bass Vol 1 and 2 collections come with 30 tuned bass drums each.
This pack includes 50 amazing kick drum samples guaranteed to add punch to your productions.
60’s Motown Drums Vol 5 features the sounds of a vintage 60s Rogers kit, recorded through an old Tascam Console with tape.
These samples have an analog warmth perfect for hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass and break beat.
Analog Rumble contains a collection of 19 drum kits by Marco Scherer.
The Freon Surfer FZ is a free instrument based on the Freon Surfer preset of the Sonic Charge MicroTonic software drum machine.
47 Free Drum Kits from FreeDrumKits.net
Over 47 free drum kits available for instant download from FreeDrumKits.net.
1000 Free Drum Samples from MusicRadar.com
Here, a round thousand drum samples are awaiting your attention: we’ve got single hits, complete kits that can be loaded into your electronic kit or drum machine of choice, and a selection of ready-to-go loops.
This drum kit is inspired by Wheezy productions and contains everything you need to cook up new beats. It’s packed with 15 tuned 808s, 66 one shot drum samples and 36 cymbals. Or in total: 102 files.
Lastly, this drum kit contains over 45 drum samples used by araabMUZIK.
Where can I buy a drum kit?
Aside from releasing many free drum kits, you can also buy kits from our range of premium sounds, including guitar loops, melody loops and MIDI kits.
With 17 Years music production experience, George Matthews is the CEO of Your Local Musician, he also makes music under the name Grimmm and releases Lo-fi music.
