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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: Accenting the hi-hat on the off-beats instead of the downbeats, while the kick and snare stay put — shifting where the ear locks in without moving the backbeat.
This is lesson 67 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, “Cut-Time Punk Drive,” covered a very fast, stripped-down groove with the kick landing on every quarter note and a pushed snare accent into beat 4 — punk and hardcore's forward drive. Next is Lesson 68, “Tom-Voiced 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.