{"id":12839,"date":"2018-12-11T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=12839"},"modified":"2022-08-20T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:58:44","slug":"hip-hop-drum-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hip-hop-drum-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Gant: Exploring Hip-Hop Grooves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MPeSEOf3mVA\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that hip-hop is the #1 music genre in the world right now? It&#8217;s dethroned rock to take the top spot. Even if you&#8217;re not a fan of this style of music, it can undoubtedly teach drummers extremely valuable skills when it comes to groove and creating a good feel on the drums.<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson, Carson Gant is going to teach five grooves taken from five hip-hop songs. At first glance, these might seem like &#8220;beginner&#8221; drum beats. Don&#8217;t be fooled&#8230; Manipulating the timing and getting the groove to sit right inside the track requires much more than simply playing the notes as they&#8217;re written.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net\/drumeo-edge-1858.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the sheet music<\/a><\/strong> so you can tackle these yourself. Looking to dive even deeper into the hip-hop genre? Drumeo Edge members can now enjoy our new Drumeo Show called &#8220;Exploring Beats&#8221;. Join Carson and his extraterrestrial roommate Gary as they travel through time and space exploring some of earth&#8217;s greatest hip-hop beats and delicious snacks. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/Drumeo.com\/edge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to join today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br \/>\n1:57 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Runaway&#8221; by Kanye West<br \/>\n4:13 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n9:08 &#8211; Groove #1<br \/>\n14:14 &#8211; Groove #2<br \/>\n21:01 &#8211; Groove #3<br \/>\n25:13 &#8211; Groove #4<br \/>\n28:52 &#8211; Groove #5<br \/>\n33:23 &#8211; Outro<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Carson:<\/strong><br \/>\nCarson Gant is the mind behind One-up Drum Vids, a website dedicated to helping you take the most out of whatever drumming ideas you&#8217;re working on. Carson&#8217;s concept is simple: one-up what you already know how to play by exploring new, creative ways to change it up, and expand your knowledge and creativity in the process. A trailblazer when it comes to the very fun and relaxed way he teaches creativity concepts, Carson was born to make people smile as they become better musicians with his help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, Carson Gant teaches 5 grooves taken from hip-hop songs. At first glance these might seem like &#8220;beginner&#8221; drum beats, but don&#8217;t be fooled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":12876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4025,4019,4038],"tags":[331,252],"class_list":["post-12839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-beats","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","tag-vic-firth","tag-zildjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}