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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: Opening the hi-hat on select sixteenth-note partials instead of just the eighth-note off-beats, for a busier splash pattern.
This is lesson 69 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, “Tom-Voiced Groove,” covered a groove where the toms carry the main rhythm instead of hi-hat and snare, for a tribal, low-end-heavy feel. Next is Lesson 70, “Full Arrangement: Advanced Textures.”
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.