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.

🎵 Lesson 6: Fast Straight-Eighth Drive — A driving, uptempo groove with the kick on every beat. mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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Lesson 6: Fast Straight-Eighth Drive

What this lesson teaches: A driving, uptempo groove with the kick on every beat.

This is lesson 6 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, Syncopate the Kick,” covered moving a kick hit onto the off-beat. Next is Lesson 7, Open Hi-Hat Accents.”

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.