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.
What this lesson teaches: Using a pickup fill and a crash-plus-kick hit together to mark a new section.
This is lesson 20 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, “Sixteenth-Note Fill,” covered filling the last beat with a running sixteenth-note cascade instead of quarter notes. Next is Lesson 21, “Odd Grouping: 3+3+2.”
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.