In this lesson you will take the three previous rudimentary jazz groove construction ideas and combine them to create some slightly more complicated patterns. As this is just a combination of previously learned parts, it shouldn't be too complicated. At the bottom of the page you will find a collection of links to other lessons that may be useful when learning these parts, if at any stage things aren't making sense, have a quick look through some of these.
As discussed in our initial jazz groove lesson, this style of music is incredibly different from rock and pop as the kicks and snares are used in a more musical way. This means that where might have been used to seeing lots of kicks on counts 1 and 3 and snares on 2 and 4, that won't happen so much in this genre.
Below I have shown some parts that take some of the basic groove patterns from the previous rudimentary jazz lessons and combine them together. These patterns are very basic and aren't very common in actual Jazz music but are a very good exercise in starting to familiarize you with these style of grooves. Swing time notation short hand has been used in all examples, make sure you are familiar with what this means or you will end up playing the parts in the wrong timing.
Make sure that when notes are falling together you hit the timing accurately, otherwise the parts will end up sounding sloppy.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
Example 7
Example 8
TASK
- Learn the groove exercises above at a tempo of at least 130bpm.
- Create your own version of this style of groove either by combining examples given above or by coming up with a new kick/snare placement.
