Category: Groove of the week

This week’s groove is an exercise in snare drum control… can you control your snare drum? View groove of the week #73 on Instagram This week, we’re playing a funky two bar pattern. The challenge with this groove is getting control of the snare drum. Some of our snare drum notes are loud and proud,…

Rim Click vs Bass Drum – The ultimate battle! Watch Groove Of The Week #72 on instagram This week’s groove is a two bar pattern featuring a conversation between the bass drum and rim click – at least that’s how I like to think of it. We’re using 16th notes on the hi-hat (played by…

The feet do the walking, the hands do the talking. Due to changes at instagram and facebook, I can’t share the video here right now… so… while I’m working on a solution to that, please click this link to enjoy the video on instagram: Groove Of The Week #71 This week’s groove is a fun…

It’s a 12/8 kinda week… This week’s groove is in the 12/8 time signature. That means we’re gonna have to count to 12… yikes! I don’t have that many fingers! Normally, when playing in 12/8 we still imply a 4/4 pulse. It’s like we’re playing 8th note triplets in 4/4. We use the 12/8 time…

Let’s have some linear fun with tom toms. This week we’re going linear with a 16th note tom tom groove. The last time we did this was on groove of the week #35, check that one out too. Get The Groove When I’m thinking up linear grooves, I often start with the snare and bass…

Shuffle along and get linear with this week’s groove. This week we’re playing what I call a layered to linear groove. The first bar is a regular layered groove and the second bar is a linear version of it. The goal is to keep the main voices (normally the bass drum and snare drum) the…

Here’s groove of the week #67: This week we’re augmenting a 16th note bass drum groove with ghost notes, the bell of the ride cymbal and an open hi-hat… too much? Let’s find out! Get The Groove Let’s check out the basic 16th note bass drum groove we’ll be building on: Hopefully, you can already…

Let’s get linear-ish…. This week’s groove features a funky 16th note bass drum pattern and a spicy 16th and 32nd note hi-hat pattern. Meanwhile the snare just plays it cool on beats 2 & 4. If you like this groove, check out groove of the week #37 for a similar idea. Get The Groove Let’s…

Let’s add some colour to our grooves this week. This week’s groove is a funky 2 bar pattern that’s been spiced up with the floor tom and the rim of the snare drum. We recently looked at adding the rim of the snare drum to our grooves on groove of the week #62; you might…

It’s groove of the week time! This week’s groove sounds relatively simple, but the coordination required to pull it off may trip you up. We have a busy, accented, 16th note hi-hat pattern, rim shots & ghost notes and, 16th note bass drums to work with. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the…