Offbeat 8ths Accented With The Ride Bell

In this lesson you will be playing grooves where constant eighth notes are played on the right hand. Those that fall on a numbered count are played on the Ride and those on an '+' are played on a Ride Bell. The right hand part looks like this:

Listed below are examples of kick and snare placement for this right hand concept.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Example 5

TASKS

1. Learn the groove above at a tempo of at least 120bpm.
2. Create further grooves using this concept.
3. Use these grooves in a longer phrase combined with fills.