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1. Introduction (8th Note Snare Variations): Hey there guys, I would go index down here and welcome to the basic rock groups cost. So this is the introductory lesson to the colostrum, just going to explain a little bit about what's going to be happening throughout the rest of the course. Just so you know what, you guys are getting yourself in full because it's going to be a right. So here's what's going to be going on. This kinda leads really nicely off my pop groups costs, which is available to the members section of the YouTube channel. And this is, well, that was basically all about moving bass drums around an eighth note hi-hat phrase. So you have this kind of thing, playing eighth notes on high hat 1234. And what we did in the entire course was basically kept everything the same with the hands and just start moving them around just to try and get some independence with this pain in the neck of a limb which is the right foot, the levels West, but we'll get into that. What's happening in this kind of rock groups, cause is it snatch from variations? That's the main thing we're going to be getting into. So rather than just having snap, snap, snap from sorry, that kinda normal backbeat, we're going to start moving this around a bit more, which happens within rock music. So I haven't like double snare drums put in snare drums in weird places. Again, all of that stuff we're going to start kinda exploring a little bit in this rock groups costs. Joining me for the rest of the course will be coming on to Exercise 1 in the next video. And like I say, this video is open to the general public. But again, if you want again to the rest of the course, it's all available on the member's section. And if you're already a member, I'll see you in the next video.
2. Rock ‘n’ Roll (Double Snare): Hi there guys. Welcome to exercise one of our basic rock groups course. And this is the Rock and Roll groove. But essentially, as I said in the introduction, this whole course is going to be about Ghana snare drum involved a little bit more because the pop grooves course, we're like bass drum variations like base, base, base case when we kept the hands the same throughout the entire course. Which is kinda good for overdoing that. But now we want to start getting a left-hand involved and moving that into some generally different places. So this groove that you can see here, it's a bass drum hi-hat together, followed by a high hat on its own. So that's the first half. And then we're going to be playing high hat and snare drum twice. So we're gonna go for high hats and add them back. And we're just going to try and put that together. So Basemap and snap, snap, base, base. And so now the worst groove in the world. But again it's new. It's starting to get a left-hand involved. And if you've been used to your left-hand being fairly static on the drums, not doing much. It can feel a little bit weird, but this is getting ready for especially some of the later groups. We're going to stop me from that left-hand and some pretty kind of odd and strange places. So anyway, we're going to try this at two time points. We're going to try all of these exercises at two time points. We're going to try them at 60 BPM, and we're going to try them a 120 BPM, which is twice the speed. I don't expect you to get 60 and then go straight to a 120. Again, have a try at both of them. And gradually you speed up going through them. So get yourself a metronome. You can get like free apps on your phone or anything, or you might, if you've got an electric guitar, there's just a button that you present. It goes click. Yes. And you can play along with that. Starts at 60 and then go 70, 80. If you're struggling, go 85, 90, 95, you're really struggling. Good. 96, 97, 98. You gradually climb your way up to that tempo of a 128, which is what we're aiming for. So let's have a look. 60 BPM. I'll count you in 1234. Here we go. Base the base step. There you have it. And they're up to an extra pair of 120. Here we go. What? Twice as fast, 1234. Okay, and I mentioned in the pop grooves course, again, if you're struggling to get the faster tempo, it might not be the groove, that's the problem. It might just be your right hand is tricky at that speed. So if that so set yourself a 120 and try and just your right hand over the top of that. And look and think, I might use my recipe is my arm. If you have too much elbow, that's going to slow you down. They began to the rest. You can open your great poet gets you fingers a bit. There's all these different ways of kinda getting into hold mistake. The main thing above everything else is that you are relaxed and you can see the way I'm playing it there. I'm using a bit of rest, a little bit fingers in that. I think it's harder to get into the fingers. That's something that comes as you practice, you read them and small. You can see always Holton stick very lightly. It's almost kinda wobbling around within my hand. I don't want to be gripping to tie, so let it be really organic and just have a really relaxed grip when you're playing this. So that's the main thing to watch out for. If you're struggling with the speed. If that's not the problem, then you look in into well, is it one of my limbs in my bass drum throwing it off? Is it my snare shown identify the problem and the whole time you're gaining control of your limbs and try and sort out what the problem is. So anyway, moving on that, so that's 120. And we've got to up to that. So we're going to be moving on to the next exercise, which is number two, which is called sudden snares. Sounds exciting. It's not as exciting as it sounds, but it's kinda cool. So anyway, next video, I'll see you shortly.
3. Sudden Snares (Snare Inversion): Hi there guys, hell's going on to Exercise 2. If I wrote Grief costs, this is called sudden snares, which sounds shocking. And it kind of is, but let's have a look. Here's what's going on. Bass drum and snap them together. And then you've got a high and a snag them twice. So that's the suddenness nice thing because normally you'd have face and then snare. But here you've got base step straight in, suddenly into it. So it creates this but more of an anticipation within your group. So bass, snare, snare, and then high hat at the end, just to finish it off. So you've got that down. That's that's the pattern. It's not too crazy. No, you probably wouldn't play an entire song with that entire group. Spit in your face with the snare drums, but it's maybe more of a variation that you can put it. So if you're applying light pressure, normal Popper. And then you could add that extra snare drum. And every so often, flat giga is a little bit, oh, just comes in suddenly. Hence, the sun's nothing. So that's where we're getting into here. But again, just showing how much variation you can put into a group just by using the left-hand that. So we're gonna look at two time points that we're going to start again at 60 BPM. And then we'll go to 120, 34. Here we go. There we go. And then we're going to go up to 120. Work your way down and again, put the video back, try that again at 60 if you want to. And again on YouTube as you probably already aware, you can go into settings, you can speed up or slow down. The video is hilarious. If you watch me talk like this, slowing it down, it's kinda funny or you can speed it up. And again it just the tempo a little bit to suit. You ought just get yourself a match in African. Try and play along with that 120. Here we go. And I want to show you here we go. So that's a little bit trickier. And again, it feels weird for the lifetime, especially if you've not done this kind of grooves much the full section, right? So we're going to move on to the exercise 3, which is called the Subway sandwich. He comes up with this stuff. See you.
4. Subway Sandwich (Kick and Snare Doubles): Hello guys, welcome to exercise three of our rock groups cost, and this one's called the Subway sandwich. Now that there's a story behind this young girl I used to teach. And she really struggled to get this groove down. And we tried all sorts of methods. People learn either through visually, it lumber hearing L by watching someone, by reading it. The thing that crack tip for her is when I call a Subway sandwich groups. So she went to Subway sandwich. I got it. So that was the breakthrough for us. So since then I've called it the Subway sandwich group. So anyway, moving on, let's see. So before I had forgotten 12, and we're gonna be playing a bass drum with the first two hi-hats. Base an app based on how it again and again, try it out and close as you can. That's gonna help you to speed it up. And then the second half is going to be a snap judgment hi-hat play twice. So I have snare and hat. Sorry. And then you try and put them together. So you've got the subway bass drum, bass drum, and then sandwich, snacks, snap. And then try and repeat it a few times. The constraint from your bedroom, bass drum, snare drum, and then back again, sorry. And again, it's not one of those grooves that you use entire way through a song. Maybe you do use it as a variations. I do a normal grief and then put it in the normal grief. Subway sandwich, Subway sandwich, normal grief, and try and flip kinda between that and doing other things. So that's the Subway sandwich group. So again, we're gonna try a two different tempos. We're going to try 60 and I'm again, we'll try it at 120. Another thing you can try as well with all of these groups is move the right-hand around. You can put your right hand to your right and do the same group. And there you go. So anyway, let's have a look. 60 BPM, 1, 2, 3, 4. And there you have it. And then onto 120, we go at a one to three. Awesome. So thus bent the Subway sandwich, really cool group. You can stick it in pretty much anywhere. So I've try it next time you come in along with the song or so of way sandwich and there yet, right? So that's the Subway sandwich and we're going to move onto it. We're going to build some kind of longer phrases in the next lesson. And the next one is number 4, the happy groove. See you there.
5. The Happy Groove (Creating Longer Phrases): Hi there guys, right there and we're on to number four, which I've called the happy group because and a groove that you can't have a sad face too. It's a happy group. And you need to pull a super cheesy grin when you play it. Anyway, let's have a look at, let us say this is a longer phrase that we're getting into now we did like half a bar phrases before that we just repeated along the phrase, creates it. That makes it a little bit more interesting. So again, rather than having repeat, repeat, repeat, taking a smaller phrase and repeating it, you can have a longer phrase, repeats. Repeats, repeats. Or if you go into like a much longer phrase, you could have like two-bar phrase. Repeats. Repeat. So you can see a longer phrase. It just creates a bit more interests. So we're getting some longer phrases now. Just takes a bit more brainpower to remember the whole groove and then repeat it note for note against. So anyway, let's have a look as to what's going on here. So this one, we've got the two snare drums happening kinda on beat 2. So based upon that high hat, and then you've got the snare drum hi-hat twice. So it's base and snap, snap. Ooh, yeah. And then we're going to be put in that with the kind of normal kind of pop grief that will end from the pop grooves course, base, base, and then Snap To bass and snare and hat. I had at the end, try the first half and then try the second half. So base and staff stop for a moment, regroup. Yeah, Nailed it. Second off base. Note that as well, and then try and do it from one to the other without stopping. Take it, slow the base and snap, snap, base, base. Because you've got one base two to base rooms. Once now, again, your brain is always trying to find the easiest pattern and sometimes it can throw you off and try and make you do something else. So again, all about control. Try and get it absolutely bang on. So again to tempos, we're going to try that at starting with 60 BPM, and then we'll jump up to 120 again. So here we go, 612123. Here we go. There it is. So last one hour, 60 and then finally 120. Again, it's twice as fast. You might need to work your way up to it and that's fine. But again, even if you can't get it to 120, you can move on to the next lesson. Learned the stuff all the slower tempo, which is still good and great if you get it there. And again, you can gradually work your way up to 120 in time. Here we go. And 1234. And there you have it. So thus the happy group. And then we're going to be moving on to Group number 5, the iron me in business, cause it sounds much more moody than the happy group that we just let anyway, see you in the next lesson.
6. I Mean Business (Longer Kick Snare Variations): Hello guys, right there. I'm Ron Soon. Number 5, the I mean, business group. Again, we've got the snare, snare at the end of this one, which creates that kind of driving pattern. But we're also starting to mix in some of those bass drum patterns, putting them in funny places that we learnt in the pop group Scott. If you struggling with bass drum stuff, go back to a few of those ones into pop grooves. Cost is no problem doing that. It's not like you're going backwards. You're just trying to revisit those grooves and remind you, write thoughts what it should be doing and again, gaining control. So if you're not done that for a while, get back into it. You just got to wake you up. Doesn't mean you forgotten does means you're a bit rusty. That's fine. So anyway, number five, I mean business. So again, split it into two parts. First group of four that we have, bass drum, hi-hat, snare, drum, and bass, drum and higher. So we've got bass and snare, bass. Again getting used to put in his bass drums in weird places again. And then the second group of four on its own is really unstable and strange to play out on its own. Base drum. And then you've got to snare drums. Bass, snap, snap. Snap, snap always feels weird when you don't do something on the first beat. But again, it creates that UHL slightly kinda over the bar line type field. So anyway, put the whole thing together. It will sound like this. Base and a base. Base, Nas narrowed again, base, base, base. So the group itself is pretty cool, That's pretty driving and keeps it keeps us ongoing. But watch out at the end because you've got snap, snap, and then you got to start on a bass drum again. Don't get mixed up with that. They snare snap, oh, I can do it. If you're playing in a band, you will not play that green one time you play it 1000 times, you'll keep on repeating. It goes on and on and on and on not. So you want to be able to repeat these things and then you can start looking at a crash with it. We'll do some fills. That's all good fun as well, but don't get distracted. Keep moving forward anyway. So we're going to try it again to tempo, 60 BPM and or 120 BPM. Here we've got 61 to one. Here we go. Okay, 120. So you're ready, Who? It's quick. And a 123. Here we go. How cool is that? It's a great group. I think you guys like that one and use it. So anyway, right, we're going to move on to number 6, that displaced snare a groove. So I'll see you in that lesson. It is like.
7. Displaced Snare (Snare Movements): Hello guys, right there and well done for getting to group number 6 and the displaced snare groove of basic rock groups cost. Now this is the first one where we're not adding snare drums. In fact, we're taking what we're not taking snare drums away, we're just moving snare drums to different parts of the bark because normally again, we have this thing called a back be in music which is on beats 2 and 4. So if we're counting 1231234, that that is what we call the backbeat. That's why I want to kinda not in their head down. And that's a constant that stays the same until it doesn't. What we're gonna do now. So we're going to displace it, which just means put it in another place. So don't worry too much about the terminology, you'll get it. So this first one, you can see that the snare drum should, on a normal grief, match up with the third high hat that we see that would have bass and snare. But this one, I've shifted along one note. So you've actually got base, which if I just repeat the first four beats of this, it sounds like this. 1 and 2 doesn't sound that groove, it does it, but we're only doing it once. And then in the second half of the BOP example, the snare drum back where it should be kinda with that third hi-hat on beat 4, again, 123. And that's where the snare drum is going to land as it normally should. So it creates this kind of, oh, that feels strange, feels normal again. And that in the listener's mind when they're listening to a song, they hear it and they go there. It's like, oh, that's interesting. But it's familiar. If it's too overly strange, it doesn't sound pleasant. And if it's too predictable, sometimes a groove can sound a little bit kind of stale and vanilla and not that interesting. But again, not always, but this creates just this little bit of interests. So every soft and having this displaced snare drum and bass drum and high to high hats on its own. And then the snare drum and higher. That's the nasty one. Okay, everything inside you, your muscle memory is going to scream out, put the snare drum with that third hi out and you're like, No, it's a base two. You feel like you want to put it but it's like no, no, hold back. One extra one I should be before you put this measurement. So that's the first half. Second half is just something we learned back in the group's base, base snare, hi-hat. Put it all together. You get this bass, snare, bass base map 1234, and that's the group. So it's pretty cool. Spend some time with that and get the hang of that displaced snare drum and get used to how it feels as well. It feels Rome. He feels like he shouldn't be that. And that's only because it's not that hard is that it's new. So again, it's no harder than the first group you have alert. It's just that it's not in a place that you expect you're used to doing things a certain way now, but we're trying to stretch you so that you can play these things that are a little bit different. So anyway, to tempos again, it will go 160 and 120. Here we have a 60 on one. Here we go. Good. And then runs 120 BPM. By the way, BPM, what does it stand for? Big purple months down. Beats per minute. How many times it beats within a minute anyway, what do, Who was great? Here we go. Got our Australian 1234. And there it is. So have some fun with that one guy. So that's number 6, the displaced snare group. Okay, and then we're going to go onto the final one of this rock groups costs. And that's going to be the back beat mixer. And it's a whole bunch of pain. You're going to live it. So I'll see you there.
8. Backbeat Mixer (Moving the Backbeat around): Hi there guys. Right then we're on to the back beat mix-up. So we talked about the backbeat a couple, a couple of lessons back in terms of where that falls. So the backbeat is the snare drum. It's what you nod your head too when you're at a desk app. So you got 1231232423. But this one, we're mixing it up a whole bunch because again, the underlying theme of this entire course has been trying to get your snare drum to go into different places and just place them in strange places. And this one's got a whole bunch of them. So the first four beats is just a normal subgroup. We have based on hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Yeah. So we're just counting 12 and everything where it should be for a decent grief. But the second half, we are going to be playing a snare drum and I am completely the wrong place to where you normally puts an agile followed by bass drum and higher. So got three and nothing on beat four. That's where the snare drum. And then we're going to put the last snare drum on the under four. So we've got 34 and so snare, bass snap, just everything about that as feels wrong. Again, we're getting into these kind of putting things in strange places because number one, when you put it all together, it does sound good and you can use it. But also it's making you put things where you wouldn't do it to stretch you again to give you a more ability to give you so many more groups you're able to actually play and choose from when you're actually playing in a band or playing along with the tun sich. Putting it altogether, we get this. We have bass and snare and staff base, and snap base, and Sam and Sam base. And it's now in the repeated. So you gotta keep on repeating it as well. And nothing feels like it should be there. So again, this is one of those grooves that we can take it slow, not hard to play the notes. And then another one if you play it slow enough. But again, it just kind of feel strange because we're so used to playing things a certain way. When you play a groove that you learned a while ago, you might be playing it. Are you thinking about your right hand or is it just happening on its own? Or you thinking about your right foot or is it just happening on its own thing start to settle into a muscle memory. When you're walking down the street, you don't think right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. They just happen on their own. So same kind of thing here. We're trying to get out of that feeling comfortable and start creating these new things. And again, it just gives us so much more ability on the drum kit. So anyway, we're going to try this one at two tempos. Spend some time with it before you try it along with the collect. But we'll try 60 here, spent some time with it, pause the video, get it, and then we'll go for it. People got 60 BPM. 3, 4. Here we go. Your Honor, finally, last exercise or the last temper, and then you completed the course. 120, 123. Here we go. And there you have, again, build it with all these things, but that groove is designed to catch you out, okay? And if it's catching you out, don't get frustrated, don't get angry at me. Okay. Well, you kinda gone. But as the pavement hate comments put the put the hate comments, that's what you did is all about negativity and exchanging is back as good about it. But anyway, but it's designed to catch you out. And again, designed to push you to get it. And when you do get it, again, that means you're a better drummer, so you're improving the whole time. It's that frustrating kind of practice where the results really start to happen. It's just like doing push ups, okay? It's when it really starts to shake. That's when the results are starting to happen. Not that I can do more than three push-ups per year. That right. I hope you've enjoyed the backbeat makes up. I hope you've enjoyed this entire basic rock groups of course. And again, kinda going on from here, you can start looking at the R and B kind of groove. So that's where rather than eighth notes, you're going to go into 16th notes rather than quarter notes, 2, 3, 4. You've then got eighth notes and 23 and five-sixteenths. It's a lot quicker. And then from that you'll be then going into like funk grooves. And it just takes you through, it's like we're going through all these different styles, but it's the technical stuff underneath. That's what I'm trying to teach you guys in order to pull these grooves off. And of course you can play these in any style. This doesn't just fit into rock music and so on. And if you've been going through with the groove courses, that's great. But do remember to pay attention to your fills as well that we learned in the first lesson. So what do you do in your groups? And then I'm sure you've been doing that already because that's really good fun anyway, but stick with it. Get your groove down and I will see you for the next course or lesson or who knows what sometime soon.
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