Category: Groove of the week

Let’s get groovy! Watch Groove Of The Week #83 on Instagram This week we’re adding a simple 16th note triplet flourish to a very common groove. The two 16th note triplets are played as ghost notes between beat 1 and the “&” of 1 and add a bit more texture to the groove. Get The…

It’s Tom Tom Time! Watch Groove Of The Week #82 on Instagram This week’s groove sees us playing a simple foot ostinato while the right hand plays a tom pattern over top and the left hand keeps the back beat on 2 & 4. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the foot ostinato…

Let’s have fun with fives with this week’s groove. Watch Groove Of The Week #81 on Instagram. This week’s groove uses a five note group played between bass drum and hi-hat. We’re using the eighth note triplet subdivision in 4/4 for this week’s groove so we only have twelve notes per bar. That means we…

This week we’re going fast & getting trashy! Watch Groove Of The Week #80 on Instagram This week’s groove goes by at 200 bpm, that’s pretty quick! We’re playing a 4 bar pattern for the first time on this groove of the week. There are plenty of songs out there that use 4 bar patterns;…

Seven is the magic number. Watch Groove Of The Week #79 on Instagram This week’s groove is built on a similar idea to groove of the week #77. Groove #77 was based on a repeating 5 note pattern played between the bass drum and hi-hat. Groove #79 is based on a 7 note pattern played…

Let’s get groovin’ Watch groove of the week #78 on instagram This week’s groove is a 2 bar pattern which uses ghost notes to spice up the groove. Let’s get to it. Get The Groove Let’s start by checking out the basic 2 bar groove that we’ll augment with ghost notes. Hopefully you can already…

It’s time to get funky with a 5 note grouping. Watch Groove Of The Week #77 on Instagram We’ve played around a lot with 5 note groupings with the drum fill of the week posts, but we’ve never applied them to a groove… until now. Get The Groove This idea came to me on a…

Let’s do the splits! Watch Groove Of The Week #76 Instagram This week’s groove sees us splitting sixteenth notes between the ride cymbal and the hi-hat. This gives us a unique sounding ride pattern where the ride cymbal dominates but the hi-hat pokes through on the “e” and “ah”. We’re also doing a little bit…

It’s time for the snare drum to take a stand. Watch Groove Of The Week #75 on Instagram This week’s groove is powerful! Featuring the snare drum pounding out quarter notes, the groove has an aggressive, energetic feel. This kind of groove has it’s roots motown music but it has applications in the rock world.…

This week we’re going off beat. Watch Groove Of The Week #74 on Instagram Groove of the week #74 shifts us totally away from playing the snare drum on the backbeat. Our first snare drum appears just a little early on the “ah” of 1 and the second snare drum turns up late on the…