In this lesson you will be adding one occurrence of the 'R L L F pattern to various grooves in the time signature of 9/8 to create simple decorative patterns. Similar patterns have been created within many other time signatures, the difference here is that the movement is being applied within a compound time signature. This lesson will be far easier if you have covered the previous lessons and you can find links to these at the bottom of the page a long with some other lessons that may be useful when learning these parts.
The aim here is just to provide you with more options for construction of grooves in this time signature. Remember to improvise using the given patterns and try to come up with your own ideas based on what has been shown. In each step the placement moves an eighth note later in the bar. A combination of ghost notes, standards strokes and accents are used, make sure all dynamic levels are accurate.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
Example 7
TASK
- Using the 2 minute rule, get the grooves up to a tempo of at least 130bpm.
- Apply these grooves to a phrased pattern as any section.
- Create further grooves using the ideas presented above.
