Category: Groove of the week

It’s time for groove of the week. Let’s get just a little linear. Groove of the week #33 includes two ways to vary your grooves. The first is interrupting the Hi-Hat flow, the second is adding in linear elements. Let’s get to it. Get The Groove Let’s start by looking at the basic groove we’ll…

How did we get to Groove Of The Week #32 without playing a Tom-Tom groove? Time to put that right! This groove was inspired by the one that Rikki Rockett plays during the introduction of the song “Unskinny Bop” by Poison. Tom-Tom grooves are fun to play and can add a lot of colour to…

This week’s groove is from the late, great, Ginger Baker. Groove of the week #31 is based on the groove that Ginger Baker played on “Born Under A Bad Sign” by Cream. The song was a cover of Albert King’s original recorded just a year earlier; Ginger’s groove really makes the cover stand out from…

It’s time to evolve. It’s time for Groove Of The Week #30. Groove of the week #30 is the evolved version of Groove of the week #29. After recording Groove of the week #29, I sat around and played with the groove some more, and I thought, what would happen if I played the hi-hats…

This weeks groove is real smooth. Let’s check it out. Groove of the week #29 uses 16th note triplets (sextuplets) for the hi-hat ostinato. I’ve always loved the sound of 16th note triplets on the hi-hat – they create a very smooth backdrop. Check out “Angel Footsteps” by Jeff Beck or “Flaws” by Bastille to…

Here’s a bit of linear fun with the week’s groove. The hi-hat firmly takes centre stage in this week’s groove. We’ve got some 32nd notes, some accents and a 6 stroke roll to get through. Let’s take a look at how the hi-hat can bring a groove to life. Get The Groove Let’s build this…

This is a journey into groove of the week #27… Have you heard this groove before? It’s more than likely, it’s been used in countless songs. The original groove was sampled from Ashley’s Roachclip by the Soul Searchers and has been used as the basis for many hip-hop songs. You might have heard in Paid…

Let’s get groovy with paradiddles in groove of the week #26 Did you spot the paradiddles in this week’s groove? Instead of being played between the hands, they were played between the bass drum and the left hand. Let’s see if we can figure this one out! Get The Groove This groove is based around…

It’s time to dust off those paradiddles – regular and inverted – and play groove of the week #25. Groove of the week #25 features 16th note paradiddles in the first half and 16th note inverted paradiddles in the second half. Throw in some hi-hat barks and you have a pretty challenging groove to play!…

Shuffle along and get funky with Groove Of The Week #24 This week’s groove is a 2-bar funk shuffle with a little linear twist on beat 3 of the second bar. Let’s get to it! Get The Groove This groove is a 16th note triplet funk shuffle. Let’s start by looking at the funk shuffle…