Tap Dance Grooves - Intermediate

1. Tap Dance - Grooves - Introduction: Hi, and welcome to this set of lessons. In this set of lessons, we will be examining the root. So we're taking a look at different bank beats, polyrhythms. There's a half-time shuffled feel. We're also going to examine the jazz right beat and take a look at the Latin group. At the end. There's also two short grooving steps for you to learn. By the end of this pack, you should be able to accompany musicians, groove along, and establish a solid time feel for yourself. Let's get to it. 2. Paradiddle Backbeat: Hey, what's up, guys? So we are examining the parent dental backbeat. A paradigm is a right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left. It's a drumming recruitment, but today we're stealing that and using it without captions on. So we're going to use the right heel and the left TO it's going to look like this. Right? Right, right, right, right, right, right. And then we switch over. So we're gonna go with the left tail and the right turn. Left in 16th notes. So it's going to sound like one. And 3.4. And did or did or did or power. Now has the kicker. We're going to add a backbeat. So a backbeat is just an accent on the two and the fall. So here we go. Right? Right, right. Right. So that initially happens on the left toe and that's where our 2.4 is going to kick in. Stone the other side, so left side, left. So at this time when we switch over to the left side, the accident captains on the right-hand side, on the toe. Here we go. 123-41-2341, 2 341-234-1234. 3. Paradiddle Groove redo: Hey, what's up, guys? So we're going to take the paradigm and change it into a groove. It's going to look like this. Like switching over to the left-hand side. Because the 16th note context. So it's going to sound like one nice little song too. It's got a real group. Don't be afraid to this groove with it. So 1 234-123-4123, 412 341-234-1234. The important thing with paradigm is that you're just combining the single digits with a double digit. That's all it is, is just allowing us to link a single digits to the double digits. 4. Backbeat 'Heavy': Hey, what's up, guys? So we're going to look at a back beat. This one I like to nickname having just because it's got a heavy feel to it. It's almost like a nice piece of straight rock. We're always going to hit the two and the four without right toe and our left toe. So if I count the same, it's like 12341. Yeah. An in-between. We're going to automate that backbeat with some heals. The first he'll preempts to one. So we've got one and a 2.3 pianoforte, and it's just before the one is one-sixteenth note before the one. Let's just do that together. 1234. Did you get it 1234. Then you've got the two on the right toe. So just that 1234. From there, we've got four hills. Left, right, left, right on the left. Putting that together, it looks like this. 1234. You get it? From there. We've got three heels and it's going to go left, right, left. Yeah. Alright. Let's just get to there. 1234. We've got two more hills on the right, slap on the left. And that's the group in its entirety is just a solid straight forwards grew. Have a listen to it. Let's do a really slow to do. Don't, don't, don't. Let's just do a really slow 1, 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4. 5. Funky Backbeat: Hey, what's up? So if you're like me, you might love Funk. I'm in love with funk music. Everything that's funky has a nice swing to it as a good gut feeling. It's important that we learn a little bit of fun here in gray shades into our groups. So let's go. We're going to hit the two of the four with the right, TO the left TO same again. Three. Real funky feel this time. So he's got a bounce to it. I think. The more you can kind of enjoy this and get down with it, the easier this is going to be. So we start with three heels to automate that backbeat. The first three heels or left? Right, left. Yeah, 1234. Adding the backbeat. 1234. From there we have two heels left, right? Yeah, the backbeat on the left. We have two deals which are both on the left, then two heels which are both from the right. And it's got a little song to it. But don't bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump. So let's do a real slow, funky one together. 2 341-234-1234. So it's important every time you groove, it comes out from the gut. It's a gut feeling or something that feels good. So don't be afraid to really layered some of your own field and your own music. 6. Polyrhythm - 6 into 4 : So right away, we're going to look at a polyrhythm. Now, what's a polyrhythm is just more than one rhythm at the same time. And polyrhythms are like tracing paper. They fit over each other. So in this case, we're going to fit a six into four. We're going to hold for, with the left TO like this. And we're going to hold six with the right TO. And this is nice and loose and it's gonna go on. So let's just do that in isolation, left than right. 123456. Now, here's the kicker. Now we're gonna make them happen at the same time. So the combination looks like this together. Right? Did you get that? And then we just repeat to try and fill it as a piece of music. So here's the connected tissue. It's just a guess. On the right. So we get together. Then we're good. On the other sides, we're keeping quarter notes with the right tone. And the six is on the left. And the combination is now together. Together. Together like stamp. The stamp is the connective tissue. 12 341-234-1234. 7. 6 into 4 Halftime Feel: So next up, it's a half-time freedom. We're going to take us 6/4 polyrhythm and add a half-time, which means we just give an accent on the three instead of an accident on the 2.4, or it usually would be on the backbeat. Now the accent is shifted to the three. I'll show you what I mean. We have quarter notes on the left toe and we have a 6/4 fields six, but you're on the right. It's going to look like this together. Right? Except this time we're going to switch the heels on the right 21 toe and that happens on 31234. Now here's the connective tissue. We dropped this toe and we also play the left tail. Yeah. 234 has the connective tissue. We drop the left TO I play the right heel. We're good to start from the beginning again. What we can do is stretch out that accent on the three where we have the toe. And we can change it so it's just ever so slightly behind. And it gives us this kind of fat field. So let me show you what I mean. We go together. Right, left, right. And it's almost like a plan of care. So the left is coming down first, followed by the right very, very closely. Yeah. So you can really play with that and how much stretches out the time feel it makes it feel really fat. Fat group 1234. 8. Halftime Shuffle Feel: So this is the halftime shuffled feel. Not to be mistaken with shuffles which are intact. This is actually just a field that is named for shuffle. So in music it's anything that sounds like. It's got a nice little triplet feel. It's kinda got a little swing to it too. So the way we're going to express that shuffle is true for lapse. On the right foot. In-between, we've got little ghost notes. The notes that are almost not even there at all. The ghost notes are on the left heel. So he's gonna go 1234. I just go to peel. These are real, real quiet. Guy said there's no need to put in any accents. So let's just do that. 123.4. Now here's the kicker. We're going to put a half-time feels so an accent on the three. The third coordinate of the bar. That toe, lift and drops on the three. And that's where our halftime field planting. So that gives us a different identity. So if you've listened to Jeff for Caro or banana, great dramas, they have great halftime shuffled fields. Let's do a really slow one together. 1 231-234-1234. 9. Jazz Ride Beat: Hey, what's up, guys? So we're going to look at the jazz right? Beat. The jazz right? It will fit in if you want to accompany a jazz band. It's gonna look like this one. And that big slab is just one. That's all I'm doing. The one is on the big one. So next up is to automate that jazz right bake with some heels on the left. And the heels are going to sound like this. 1234 as a little song to that. But so next is to put those two together. So you've got the jazz right on the right and the ornamentation on the left. It should sound something like this. 234. Figuring out where those taps married or they meet at the same time. That really helps. So the first toe and the heel that married. Yeah. That's the next one. The next term that you're married as well on the data. One more married. That's the first toe and the heel, the heel again. So 123-412-1234. So learning the jazz right beat is essential in your journey towards syncopation and sway. And that just means you'll be able to play some jazz with some complex rhythm. That's all. 10. Latin Feel: Hey, what's up, guys? So we're gonna look at the Latin field. We're going to hold this groove with the left heel of one. So it's got a buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh. A real feel to it. It's got a nice group. Just do that. Left heel, nice and slow. 1234. Yeah, here's the kicker. We're gonna give it a kind of offbeat with the right TO, it almost makes it feel like some kind of scar beat. So check, check, check jab, jab, jab, jab. And that is kind of juxtaposing against this left heel. Nice. And basically it gives us what would be a bass drum. So just the right toe is going to be offbeat 123123. So let's put those two together. It should sound something like this. 234. Let's try on the other side, 2 341-234-1234. 11. Short Step - 'Mississippi': So this is the first out of the two short steps I nicknamed this step Mississippi, because that's where I was. When I made this step. It's a great accompaniment. You have a band playing, it's great to just stand there and place and time. The band will appreciate you for that. So here we go. We're going to go pale. And that's the step. We repeat on the left. Heel. Go back and rewind and watch it 100 times. If you have two, There's no rule. So it should sound a little something like that. It's 1234. Let's do a really slow one together. 2, 3 4, 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1, 2, 3 4. 12. Short Step - Stamp Groove: Hey, what's up, guys? So this is the second and short step I'm going to teach you. It's a grouping step. We're going to start with the right foot on the left side. Then it goes. And a feel of that is I do, but I do, do, do do, do. It's always got like three or feel like 12 312-312-3123. It's going to sound like it's 1234. Repeat that one more time. And then to finish this debt, we keep home with this one, the stamps back heel. And then we just have four spans in a row. So putting the whole thing together, I'm really slowly. 1234, 1234, 1234, 1234. Remember, grooves help us establish a relationship with musicians and they help us establish a solid time for you. I hope you found this pack of lessons fun and challenging. And now I challenge you to come up with your own group.