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🎵 Lesson 5: Syncopate the Kick — Moving a kick hit onto the off-beat. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 5: Syncopate the Kick

What this lesson teaches: Moving a kick hit onto the off-beat.

This is lesson 5 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, Eighth-Note Hi-Hat,” covered doubling the hi-hat for a driving feel. Next is Lesson 6, Fast Straight-Eighth Drive.”

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.