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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 bouncy, syncopated kick-and-snare conversation instead of a fixed backbeat.
This is lesson 43 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, “Afrobeat-Influenced Groove,” covered a steady sixteenth-note hi-hat with a syncopated kick and a cross-stick answering on the off-beats. Next is Lesson 44, “Blast Beat Intro.”
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.