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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: Moving the quiet cross-stick backbeat from Lesson 24 onto a syncopated sixteenth-note grid instead of a plain quarter-note backbeat.
This is lesson 88 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, “Dotted-Eighth Loping Feel,” covered a hi-hat pattern built from dotted-eighth-plus-sixteenth cells instead of straight or swung eighths, for a loping, uneven pulse. Next is Lesson 89, “Call-and-Response 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.