Every beat of the measure (1, 2, 3, 4) has 3 triplets associated with it.
What does that mean? It means that instead of their being 8 "eight" notes to a bar, grouped in 2's, there are 12 "eight notes" grouped in 3's (or triplets). What's happening here? Well, the first major thing to understand is that this rhythm is most commonly played with "swung eight notes". Basic Swing GrooveĪnother simple, 1 bar groove that can be repeated easily with great success is the jazz/swing groove. Realize that even advanced drummers spend lots of time on these basic drum beats. Just because something sounds simple, or is easy to play in your mind, doesn't mean it's dumb." Steve Jordan actually said it best in one of his videos. While this beat may seem easy, you'll notice that it can be difficult to make it feel and sound like it does on some of these recordings. He might have even come up with a completely different, more complex accent pattern. In a different situation, he might have accented the "and"s and left the other beats softer, or he might have played them all loud, or all soft. There's no right way to do it, only ways that feel different. This is a stylistic, groove-based decision.
In Vultures, Steve Jordan accents his hi-hat on the "1", "2", "3" and "4", while his "and"s are a little softer. Making some notes louder than others is called "dynamically accenting", "playing with accents" or anything along those lines. Can you hear how the drummers are not playing all the notes exactly the same? This is not by accident. I'd also like you to notice the hi-hat on these recordings, and listen to how it is phrased, or accented. Steve plays a few extra bass drum notes here and there, but they can be considered decorative for our purposes. Want another example? Check out John Mayer's Vulture's with Steve Jordan on the drums. Give it a listen!Īside from a few fills, he plays the simple beat exclusively (minus the rock-out bridge section). One of them being "Back in Black" by ACDC. This groove is present in hundreds, if not thousands of popular songs. If you need help with basic music notation, I suggest reading the " Reading Sheet Music" page to get yourself grounded, then continue on. The hi-hat notes lines up with the bass drum and snare notes, as well as play in between them. "1" and "3" are played on the bass drum, while "2" and "4" are played on the snare. The bass drum and snare drum are alternating quarter notes. What's happening? Well, the hi-hats are playing 8th notes (counted "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and"). A "backbeat" is not really a groove by itself, but if someone says "play a backbeat groove", you'll understand what they want: the snare drum played on beats 2 and 4 of the bar, in 4/4 time.Ī backbeat also happens to be present in one of the most common, basic drum beats around. Okay, what is a backbeat? The backbeat actually refers to a specific part of a groove: the snare drum hits that occur on beats 2 and 4 in most popular music. There are two basic drum beats for you here: It would make sense, then, to start off your drumming career not with some mundane exercises, but with something you can use right away: a beat! I'll give you a couple examples of some rudimentary beats that even my mother could play (with a little practice). We provide the beat for the music we are responsible for grooving. When you hear "drummer", don't you immediately think "beats"? I certainly do. Who doesn't? I think it's the first thing anyone wants to play, really. The first things I played on the drums were a couple of basic drum beats. Posted in Learn | Last Updated on October 19, 2019 A lot of the more light entertaining pieces would come together quicker with such a short cut.
Of course music that is composed specifically with percussion in mind requires the composer to be every bit as involved with the individual percussive elements as he is with instruments. for a composer this would be a very useful feature. I know percussion is an art and any good drummer will be more than capable of deviating and improving what is written in front of him. So all the building blocks are there to cut and paste along the percussion stave ? The 8 bars could be made up of standard rhythm, alt rhythm, break, and turnaround. I get to a point where I just want to place a style of beat onto the music without having to sequence a a rhythm from scratch.Īny chance of some basic 8 bar drum sequences we can drag and drop into a drum stave ?.
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