LOOPAZON — AFROBEATS PRACTICE LOOPS
100 BPM | 4/4 | 4 bars per loop | 9.6 seconds | A minor pitched parts
48 kHz stereo 24-bit PCM WAV; MP3 previews are not exact loop-length masters.

This is an original, synthesized Afrobeats-inspired learning exercise, not
a recording of live instruments or a recreation of a particular artist.
Sounds were programmed from oscillators and noise with Python and encoded
with FFmpeg. The reference is a command-line render, not an export or test
of Loopazon's browser editor, FL Studio, or another DAW.

LOOPS
01-pocket-drums-100bpm.wav: kick and rim, no shaker.
02-shaker-100bpm.wav: sixteenth notes, accented on the '&' counts.
03-percussion-100bpm.wav: two synthesized hand-drum-like tones.
04-bass-100bpm-am.wav: roots A, F, D, E, one root per bar.
05-chords-100bpm-am.wav: Am7 / Fmaj7 / Dm7 / Em7, one chord per bar.
06-pluck-100bpm-am.wav: sparse notes from A natural minor.

All WAV loops contain exactly 460800 frames. Start every four-bar loop
on a four-bar section boundary. Do not put the bass/chords in at the
second bar of the progression unless you intend to change the harmony.

DRUM GRID (sixteenth steps 1..16; count 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a)
Kick: 1, 7, 11, 15. Rim: 5, 13.
Shaker: all 16 steps; strongest on 3, 7, 11, 15.
Even-numbered shaker steps are delayed 8 ms; accent choices vary slightly.
Percussion: steps 4, 9, 12, 16. This is one original practice pattern,
not a rule for all Afrobeats music.

32-BAR REFERENCE (76.8 seconds)
Bars 1–4: shaker, chords.
Bars 5–8: drums, shaker, chords.
Bars 9–16: all six loops.
Bars 17–20: shaker, percussion, chords.
Bars 21–24: drums, shaker, bass, chords.
Bars 25–32: all six loops.
Every included loop is already balanced. Reference track gain is 0 dB
(unity) for every track; no additional normalization, compression or limiter.
The reference has a 10 ms opening and 50 ms closing fade; loop files do not.
Playback or DAW import defaults may change the resulting level.

Listen to drums-only.mp3 and drums-and-shaker.mp3 for a 4-bar A/B comparison.
Listen to reference-arrangement.mp3 for the complete practice arrangement.
Use WAV files rather than MP3 previews when building your own beat.

See LICENSE.txt for permission to use these original sounds in your music.