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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 hi-hat pattern built from dotted-eighth-plus-sixteenth cells instead of straight or swung eighths, for a loping, uneven pulse.
This is lesson 87 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, “Kick Ostinato Meets Ghost Snare,” covered combining the continuous sixteenth-note kick ostinato from Lesson 36 with a dense ghost-note snare pattern underneath a steady hi-hat. Next is Lesson 88, “Sixteenth-Note Cross-Stick 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.