• Groove Development: 03-05-2022 (Two Bar Four On The Floor With Percussion)

    In this five page level 4 groove construction lesson you will learn a two bar groove that uses a lot of percussion over a constant quarter note kick. This is built up over several steps, starting with a heavily simplified version of the part, which allows you to focus on one element of the part at a time.

    The pack contains a PDF and 24 MP3s in a .zip file. This includes two MP3s of each step at multiple tempos, an example piece using the given groove and a backing track of the piece for you to play along to.

    The size of this pack is 20.1MB.

  • Groove Development: 07-06-2022 (Two Bar 6/8 With Time Kept On The Left Foot)

    In this four page level 3 groove construction lesson you will learn a two bar groove in 6/8 where time is kept on the left foot rather than the right hand. Rhythmic interest is then added using toms and cowbells. This is built up over several steps, starting with a heavily simplified version of the part, which allows you to focus on one element of the part at a time.

    The pack contains a PDF and 16 MP3s in a .zip file. This includes two MP3s of each step at multiple tempos, an example piece using the given groove and a backing track of the piece for you to play along to.

    The size of this pack is 13.7MB.

  • Groove Development: 07-09-2021 Download Pack

    In this four page level 4 groove construction lesson you will learn a two bar part in 3/4 that combines cowbells, a left foot coubt and a busy kick/snare part to create a complicated groove. This is build up over several steps, starting with a simplified version of the part, which allows you to focus on one element of the part at a time.

    The pack contains a PDF and 16 MP3s in a .zip file. This includes two MP3s of each step at multiple tempos, an example piece using the given groove and a backing track of the piece for you to play along to.

    The size of this pack is 13.1MB.

  • Groove Development: 26-07-2022 (Two Bar Offbeat Eighths On A Cowbell)

    In this five page level 3 groove construction lesson you will learn a two bar common time groove where right hands play offbeat eighths on a cowbell. Under this sixteenth kicks and ghosted snares are used as decoration. This is built up over several steps, starting with a heavily simplified version of the part, which allows you to focus on one element of the part at a time.

    The pack contains a PDF and 22 MP3s in a .zip file. This includes two MP3s of each step at multiple tempos, an example piece using the given groove and a backing track of the piece for you to play along to.

    The size of this pack is 15.1MB.

  • Left To Right Groove: 24-01-2020 (Moby Dick Style Cow Bell Groove)

    In this three page level 3 groove lesson you will learn a one bar pattern in 4/4 built using a sixteenth note rhythm played on a cowbell with various sixteenth note kick and snare decoration. This is based on the song Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin and is presented in a Left To Right method.

    The pack contains a PDF and 11 MP3s in a .zip file.

    The size of this pack is 7.5MB.