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 2: Add the Backbeat — Snare on beats 2 and 4. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 2: Add the Backbeat

What this lesson teaches: Snare on beats 2 and 4.

This is lesson 2 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, Find the Pulse,” covered steady quarter notes on the hi-hat. Next is Lesson 3, Add the Kick.”

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.