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Video Lesson! Groove Construction, Part 3: Linear Patterns with Jost Nickel

 This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the July 2016 issue, which is available here.

Rock ‘N’ Jazz Clinic

Groove Construction

Part 3: Linear Patterns

In this lesson, we’ll create linear grooves by following three simple rules. Linear grooves never have more than one voice played at the same time. In general, I feel that the two most important elements of a groove are the bass drum figure and the snare accents. We’ll start building linear patterns using a skeleton groove that consists of these two components.

Jost Nickel

For the complete lesson with transcriptions, check out the July 2016 issue, which is available here.
 

 
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