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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 off-beats and ghosting the downbeats on the hi-hat — the reverse of where accents usually land.
This is lesson 84 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, “Snare-Led Sixteenth Groove,” covered a continuous sixteenth-note snare ostinato with the kick only accenting select hits underneath, flipping which instrument leads the groove. Next is Lesson 85, “Shuffle-Feel Fill.”
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.