Drag rhythmic values into up to 6 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 35: 6/8 Compound Groove — A 6-beat measure felt as two big pulses of three, not six even beats. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 35: 6/8 Compound Groove

What this lesson teaches: A 6-beat measure felt as two big pulses of three, not six even beats.

This is lesson 35 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, 5/4 Groove,” covered a 5-beat measure grouped 3+2, instead of the usual 4. Next is Lesson 36, Sixteenth-Note Kick Ostinato.”

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.