This lesson takes a similar idea to our Four 16th Note Double Kick Grooves and extends the bursts of double kick to eight notes. The patterns used here make great sound grooves, particularly in the metal genre, but we are using them mostly as an exercise in improving your double kick playing. You will start by learning some half time patterns as these are a little easier but I will show some common and double time ideas too.

To familiarize you with how the sixteenth notes work I'll start by giving a quick exercise. In this exercise you will play two eighth note bass drums in the first half of the bar. For the second half of the bar you will be four sixteenth notes using both feet. In the bar on the right the right foot is playing on the numbered count and the '+' count. On the left the right foot is still doing this but the left foot adds the 'e' and 'a' counts.

An exercise

Spend some time getting comfortable with the exercise and how the left foot is used to fill in the notes between the eighth notes. As usual, start with a low tempo but build up to a higher tempo than you would normally, around 160bpm would be good.

Listed below are some variations on this exercise where the 16th note grouping is used in various ways. In each exercise an example of both crotchet and quaver right hands has been given.


Example 1

Grouping at the start of a half time bar. This is the left part of the exercise above but I've included it so you can see the quarter note right hand.

Example 1


Example 2

The grouping applied half way through the bar.

Example 2


Example 3

Grouping at the start of a common time bar.

Example 3


Example 4

Grouping half way through a common time bar.

Example 4


Example 5

Grouping at the start of a double time bar.

Example 5


Example 6

Grouping halfway through a double time bar.

Example 6


TASK

  1. Using the 2 minute rule, get all grooves with eighth note right hands up to a tempo of at least 160bpm.
  2. Using the 2 minute rule, get all grooves with quarter note right hands up to a tempo of at least 180bpm.
  3. Create further variations on these grooves. Think about where else you could place the grouping.
  4. Apply these grooves to a phrased piece.
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