Beats
Drum sounds, tempo, the backbeat, bars and fills, swing and syncopation.
Lessons
- 1Make your first beatPress Play and listen: three drum sounds, one bar, looping. Then build your own.
- 2The sounds of a drum kitKick, snare, hats, toms and cymbals: what each one does in a beat.
- 3Beat and tempoThe steady pulse under the music, and how fast it goes.
- 4The backbeatWhy the snare lands on beats two and four.
- 5Bars and fillsCounting in bars, and the short drum moves that tie them together.
- 6Two classic beats: rock and houseOne beat built on the backbeat, one on a kick that never stops.
- 7SwingDelaying every other step so a beat grooves instead of ticks.
- 8Off the beat: syncopationPutting hits where the listener does not expect them.
- 9Play with beatsTwo bars, nine sounds, tempo and swing. Make anything.
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