Pack overview
What you will practice
The first six patterns share a straight eighth-note grid at 98 BPM. Keep the hi-hat and snare unchanged while you compare the kick or extra snare placement in each bar.
Heavy Metal switches to sixteenths, Motown Rock uses a two-bar phrase, and Rock and Roll uses triplets. Read the grid before carrying the straight-eighth feel into those final exercises.
Learning goals
- Play eight equal hi-hat strokes without leaning on the numbered beats.
- Keep snare on 2 and 4 while changing only the kick phrase.
- Recognize an eighth-note, sixteenth-note or triplet grid before starting.
- Loop a two-bar pattern without adding a pause at the bar-one boundary.
Practice routine
- Play hi-hat and snare only at the written tempo for four bars.
- Speak each kick count, then add the foot without changing either hand.
- Record eight loops and compare the first backbeat with the last.
- Move to the next pattern only when you can state exactly which kick or snare note changes.