Drag rhythmic values into up to 5 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 34: 5/4 Groove — A 5-beat measure grouped 3+2, instead of the usual 4. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 34: 5/4 Groove

What this lesson teaches: A 5-beat measure grouped 3+2, instead of the usual 4.

This is lesson 34 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, Displaced Backbeat,” covered moving the snare off the downbeat entirely, onto the 'and' of 2 and 4. Next is Lesson 35, 6/8 Compound Groove.”

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.