Category: Groove of the week

Let’s get funky! This week’s groove takes a fairly common groove and just drops an unexpected snare in the middle to funk it up a bit. This is something that you might use occasionally when playing a groove to change it up a little. To hear a song where this is done constantly, have a…

Here’s groove of the week #62: This week’s groove is a fairly sparse off-beat hi-hat groove, but to liven it up we’ve added a little bit of snare drum rim action. Using the rim of a drum to add a different colour to a groove has been done by many artists. For example, you’ll hear…

Simple. Syncopated. Speedy. This week’s groove is a syncopated beat with quarter notes on the hi-hat and an open hi-hat on beat one of every second bar. It’s going by pretty quick though at 180bpm. Are your offbeats accurate enough to keep up? Get The Groove There’s not a lot to this groove. There are…

This week we’re upgrading a favourite groove. Let’s take look: On the surface we’re playing a groove that most people learn in their first few months of playing. However, we’ve upgraded the ride pattern to include some 16th notes and the bell of the ride cymbal and we’re adding an offbeat pedalled hi-hat just for…

Drums: Do you still love me? Me: Yes, I’m still into you. This groove is borrowed from the song “Still Into You” by Paramore. It occurs for 8 bars during the bridge of the song, but it’s not really audible on studio versions of the song, but if you check out the live versions you’ll…

Things are about to get weird…. Groove of the week #58 starts out with a straight forward, rock solid, triplet groove but then at the end we add a touch of weirdness by playing 8th notes on the bass drum instead following the triplet subdivision. Back on Groove Of The Week #16 we did this…

Pssh… Groove Of The Week: This week we take a rock solid groove and add a little hi-hat sound effect and a paradiddle lick to take it to the next level. Get The Groove Let’s take a look at the basic groove that we’re going to build this beat on. Hopefully, you can play this…

It’s funky bass drum time! This week’s groove features a busy sixteenth note bass drum pattern and some 8th note hi-hat openings. Can you handle the footwork on this groove? Get The Groove Busy sixteenth note bass drum patterns can be challenging on their own, add in some open hi-hat work and you have recipe…

Bass in the hole….. This week’s groove is a two bar shuffle pattern. Shuffles can be quite challenging; obtaining a consistent, confident swing feel takes time. This groove challenges the shuffle further by placing the bass drum on the middle note of the triplet. If you’re playing blues or rock, you’re probably not going to…

Let’s get groovin’: This week’s groove takes a simple groove and just spices it up with some 16th note triplets and some open hi-hats to create a two bar pattern. Let’s check it out. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the basic groove we’ll be messing around with: This is a fairly basic…