Drag rhythmic values into up to 4 beat blocks per line to build a drum groove, or click a tile then click a block to place it — handy on a trackpad.

🎵 Lesson 11: Sixteenth-Note Hi-Hat — Subdividing the hi-hat into sixteenths for a smoother, busier feel. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 11: Sixteenth-Note Hi-Hat

What this lesson teaches: Subdividing the hi-hat into sixteenths for a smoother, busier feel.

This is lesson 11 of 100 in RockBlocks Drum School, a free, stepwise course where each lesson adds one new idea to the one before it. The previous lesson, Put It Together,” covered verse, chorus, and fills arranged into one song. Next is Lesson 12, Ghost Notes.”

The lesson beat is loaded in the grid above. Press play to hear the loop, or drag the beat blocks to see how the groove is put together, one drum row at a time. Nothing you change here is saved, so every visitor starts from the same pattern.