Unit 2 · Groove · Lesson 5 of 11
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Unit 2: Groove · Lesson 5 of 11

Syncopation is in the full course

Push a hit off the beat and hear the beat lean. About 3 minutes, in your browser.

  • All 11 parts of Unit 2, 9 cards and a project: give one beat three feels: a walk, a strut and a rush.
  • Every unit after it, as it opens
  • Your Unit 1 cards, beats and progress carry over
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Syncopation

Push a hit off the beat and hear the beat lean.

  1. Which one leans?

    Done

    Two beats with the same snare. One of them leans forward, as if it’s about to trip. Play both, then choose.

    Play each, then choose.

    1. Which one leans?

  2. Push the kick

    Done

    A backbeat at drum & bass speed. Move its second kick off beat 3 and two boxes later, to step 11. That skip is the two-step.

    2 boxes to fix.

    172bpm
    1 bar on repeat
    Kickyour turn
    Snarealready there
    Hatsalready there

  3. Straight to bouncy

    Done

    Three kicks under the same snare. Play each, then tap them in order, from the straightest to the bounciest.

    Play each, then tap them in order.

    Put them in order, from straight to bouncy.

    1. Straight?
    2. Then?
    3. Bouncy?

  4. Lesson done

    3 steps, all done, and saved to your account.

    In your collection

    Ready to use: drop it into the beat maker, or find it any time in your collection.

    Your collection Try it in the beat maker Its page in the dictionary

    Twos and threes is next. Split the beat in three: the shuffle, and trap’s rolls.

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