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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: A different kick/snare syncopation than the samba feel, both built from the same eighth-note grid.
This is lesson 41 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, “Samba-Influenced Feel,” covered a two-beat surdo-style kick pattern (downbeat plus a syncopated push) under steady eighths. Next is Lesson 42, “Afrobeat-Influenced 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.