A A A B Exercises Using Half Time Grooves As Fills

The four bar phrases presented in this lesson continue exploring the 'AAAB' Structure, this time focusing on replacing a fill with a Half Time Groove. The intention here is to improve your familiarity with the structure, your ability to use half time grooves, increase your options for fills and to improve your ability to switch between common and half time grooves.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Example 5

TASK

1. Using the 2 minute rule, get all phrases up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
2. Create your own versions of these patterns.