In this lesson you will be learning a second version of the One Bar 3 3 2 Multi Rhythmed Constant Double Kick Groove. In that version you used a set of syncopated eighth note snares combined with a standard 16th double kick. This time you will be using the same grouping but played as syncopated 16th notes. That meanst you will essentially be playing the same thing twice to fill the bar but the way it interacts with some of the kick patterns will be a bit different in these patterns. This lesson will be laid out in a similar way to the previous one, so the part will be built up gradually and variations on it will be given at the end.
The individual parts of this pattern are very simple, but combining the timing and placement of the snare drums can easily throw you off. As mentioned above I will present the part in a 'step by step' format to help you understand more clearly what is going on. Once learned though some really interesting groove patterns can be played.
Step 1 - Hands
The foundation of this pattern will be a sixteenth note '332' rhythm that is played twice. This is shown below as a straight snare rhythm with accents and phrase markings included to highlight the feel of the part.
So that is very similar to exercise and groove patterns you will have seen in other syncopation related lessons, nothing overly complicated. That said, make sure you can play this consistantly at a decent tempo before moving on. If we remove all snares that aren't accented you will end up with the snare part that will be used throughout these groooves. That looks like this:
Then to get the full foundation of the part we can play those snares on the left hand with an eighth note right hand over the top, Like this:
Step 2 - Feet
The next step will be to add some double kick feet under this syncopated hand pattern and the two patterns you will be using in this lesson are straight eighths and straight sixteenths. First of all let's look at straight eighths. If you stick with a right note eighth count these two limbs will fall exactly in time and the snares will fall around them. The part looks like this:
Spend some time getting comfortable with this pattern. Play to a metronome and make sure the left hand is falling exactly where it should, particularly when it falling 'between' the other limbs. The next step is to up the speed of the feet to sixteenth notes and this is shown below:
In some ways this is a little easier as the left hand now has something to latch onto. Just make sure your feet are playing those sixteenth notes solidly and everything that should fall together falls together. The two patterns shown above give you a couple of simple syncopated double kick grooves.
Step 3 - Variations
Finally I will give some examples of variations around the idea presented above. Each example will maintain the sixteenth note double kick with a syncopated rhythm over the top and the first variation I will show is just switching the right hand from eighths to quarters. This is a very simple change but makes a big difference to the sound:
Another very simple but big change you can make is moving the righth and to fall inline with the snare. This is shown below using the china cymbal.
In this version you will be playing around with a linear style pattern on the hands. The full groove won't strictly be linear as you will still have the 16th note feet under it. What you will end up with is something similar to the straight eighth 3 3 3 3 4 idea discussed above split between two hands. The snare and right hand pattern is shown below, the snare is to be played with the left and the ride the right as you would expect. This patterns will be quite quick but sound awesome.
And then the same hand part with the feet applied. I have notated the snare in voice 1 here to clarify the hand movement. 
TASK
- Using the 2 minute rule, get all grooves and variations up to a tempo of at least 130bpm.
- Create further variations using the ideas presented.
- Apply these grooves to a phrased piece as either the groove or fill.
- Think about what other ways this pattern could be messed around with to create new patterns.
