Diving Deep into Displacements Most of us seem to be listening to music digitally these days almost exclusively. And while streaming means never having to deal with a skipping record or CD anymore, those skips and glitches can provide a fun rhythmic effect to try to replicate on the drumset. There are several ways you can approach this challenge. In this lesson we’re going to explore restarting our beats somewhere other than beat 1 within our pattern to simulate an unnatural skip in each example’s rhythmic phrasing. We can start exploring this idea with a simple beat that’s based mostly in 8th notes, as demonstrated in Exercise 1, and then build upon it. Practice this groove until it’s funky and comfortable to execute. Once you have that source groove comfortable, let’s create our first glitched beat. To do this we’re going to restart our groove on the “a” of beat […]

June 2019 Issue