Pack overview
What you will practice
Every pattern uses the same tempo and 4/4 sixteenth-note grid, so compare them directly. The useful question is not whether one sounds busier, but which exact subdivision moved.
Keep the hi-hat below the kick and snare. If the hat masks the lower phrase, you will not hear whether a kick landed on e, and or a.
Learning goals
- Name each syncopated kick position using 1 e and a counting.
- Keep snare on 2 and 4 unchanged while moving the kick around it.
- Switch between eighth-note and sixteenth-note hi-hat patterns without changing tempo.
- Play a late a-count without shortening the following beat-one rest.
Practice routine
- Clap the kick and snare phrase while counting all sixteen subdivisions.
- Play kick and snare until the backbeats stay fixed for eight loops.
- Add hi-hat at half the snare volume and check that the lower phrase is still easy to hear.
- Alternate two related patterns every bar and identify the changed note aloud.