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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: Moving timekeeping from the hi-hat to the ride cymbal for a more open, washy sound.
This is lesson 37 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 Kick Ostinato,” covered a continuous running sixteenth-note kick pattern underneath the groove, for a heavy, driving feel. Next is Lesson 38, “Hemiola: Grouping in 3s Over a 4-Beat Bar.”
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.