The 10 Best Guitar Sample Packs

Adding tasty guitar samples to a beat you’ve worked hard on is always an exciting moment.

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But getting good guitar recordings is often a challenge.

Sometimes it’s easier to find ideas and inspiration from a guitar sample.

To get you on the right path, here’s the 10 best royalty-free guitar sample packs.

1. Dave Foreman Composition and Samples Vol.1

Dave Forman is an iconic west coast guitarist who’s worked with major acts like Bruno Mars, LL Cool J and Will Smith.

In this sample pack, you get access to his personally crafted licks, lead lines, funky chord progressions, and more.

If you’re looking for a soulful groove, chunky chords, or a ripping guitar solo this sample pack is the first place to look.

If you’re looking for a soulful groove, chunky chords, or a ripping guitar solo this sample pack is the first place to look.

Our favorite sample from the pack: Uncle Dave Riffs Key Amin

2. Smooth Chords Guitar and Bass Pack

The Smooth Chords Pack is exactly what its name sounds like.

Here you’ll find tons of chord progressions in a variety of styles from R&B, soul, funk, and jazz.

There’s also plenty of picked lead lines to add melody to your track.

This pack is perfect for chopping guitar takes into a lo-fi, R&B, or neo-soul track.

Our favorite sample from the pack: LSTBT GuitarCRD

3. Songstarter Guitar Progressions

Sometimes one guitar sample is enough to inspire an entire track.

Sometimes one guitar sample is enough to inspire an entire track.

Songstarter Guitar Progressions is a handpicked collection of guitar samples that are sure to get your creative juices flowing.

You’ll find interesting chord progressions, grooving rhythm guitar, and melodic guitar lines.

If you want to build a track around a tasty guitar part, this pack is a great place to start.

Our favorite sample from the pack: Wonder 140BPM

4. Catchy Guitar Melodies Vol.1

In pop music, guitars have a specific sound that can be hard to find.

In pop music, guitars have a specific sound that can be hard to find.

The Catchy Guitar Melodies sample pack focuses on the kind guitar parts you hear in chart-topping pop songs.

Sugary-sweet melodies, studio-quality recordings and reverb and delay soaked chord progressions are what you will find in this pack.

If you need a guitar part for your EDM, pop, singer-songwriter, or dance track this is the pack for you.

Our favorite sample from the pack: Guitar 36 Gm

5. Billboard Pop Guitars

Another guitar sample pack that focuses on pop music is Billboard Pop Guitar.

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This sample pack is especially geared towards singer-songwriter and adult contemporary styles like Jack Johnson and Ed Sheeran.

Get chord progressions that pull on heartstrings and pulsing riffs that are sure to get the crowd dancing.

Our favorite sample from the pack: PR BPG KIT 02

6. Pop Guitars Vol 5 Sample Pack

Sugary-sweet lead lines, inspiring chord progressions, and filter sweeping guitars are what characterize this guitar most.

This sunny guitar sample evokes the beaches of California and the pop music it inspired.

I think of Party in the U.S.A. by Miley Cyrus when I listen to this one.

For your next pop track, this guitar sample pack is a go-to.

Our favorite sample from the pack: PL PG5 Kit1 105 F#maj Guitar Intro Dry

7. Lo-Fi Guitars

In Lo-Fi Guitars you’ll find crackling and hissing guitar sounds that sound like they’ve been recorded to tape.

In this pack, you’ll find colorful chord structures, moody chord progressions, and lead lines with that shiny tape sound.

This is the perfect sample pack for adding a lo-fi guitar sample to your lo-fi track.

Our favorite sample from the pack: SLFG Guitar 80 BPM Am FX

8. Ben Pleasant’s Guitar Sample Pack Vol1

Ben Pleasant’s Guitar Sample Pack is full of creative samples in a variety of genres.

For rock, to folk, to pop and soul, you’ll find a ton of material to work with.

The sample pack comes with 20 different arrangements that make it possible to arrange interesting guitar tones, chord progressions, and lead lines into a unique sample.

Our favorite sample from the pack: riff

9. Hit Guitars

Hit Guitars is full of energetic, fast, and hard-hitting guitar playing.

Hit Guitars is full of energetic, fast, and hard-hitting guitar playing.

In this sample pack, you’ll find ripping guitar solos, fingerpicking, and hard-hitting chord progressions.

For a guitar part that means business, check out this excellent sample pack.

Our favorite sample from the pack: HG Slap 1 C

10. Latin Guitars Vol1

Latin guitar styles have a unique quality that takes talent to replicate.

In Latin Guitars Vol1 you get access to samples that evoke flamenco, bossa, afro Cuban, mariachi, and classical Spanish guitar styles.

If your track is calling for a fiery Latin guitar take, this sample pack is the perfect place to start.

Our favorite sample from the pack: 160BPM Dm Two Left Shoes

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Alex Lavoie works as a staff writer at LANDR by day and writes indie post-punk tunes in his band UTILS while moonlighting as drummer for folk-rock outfit The Painters.

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