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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 fast, syncopated kick-and-snare breakbeat pattern lifted off the sixteenth-note grid instead of landing on the obvious beats.
This is lesson 56 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, “Alternating Double-Kick Feel,” covered a continuous sixteenth-note kick pattern with alternating accents, the way a double-bass-pedal player alternates emphasis between feet. Next is Lesson 57, “Clave-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.