{"id":20701,"date":"2019-12-03T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:51:21","slug":"how-to-make-a-groove-feel-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-make-a-groove-feel-great\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make A Groove Feel Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h3qrOBWgbks\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why do some grooves make you feel good, and some just don&#8217;t work at all?<\/p>\n<p>Whether you like it or not, says Raghav Mehrotra, your purpose as a drummer playing with musicians is to be the backbone of the band, keep time, and make it feel great.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Raghav recommends building grooves that do just that:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bass Drum<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>What to do:<\/em> This is the foundation of your groove, and in many styles you might want to correlate it with the bass guitar because it provides a similar function in a band setting.<\/p>\n<p>First, take into account the style of music you&#8217;re playing. In disco, for example (the style in the video), the drums and bass should complement each other. Place the bass drum notes where they won&#8217;t clash with the bass guitar. In this particular song, Raghav keeps a solid quarter note going to ground the groove, and occasionally adds one or two extra notes to give it that extra push. The key is keeping it simple.<\/p>\n<p><em>What not to do:<\/em> Make the bass drum parts too complex or too dense where they clash with the bass guitar.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Snare drum<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>What to do:&nbsp;<\/em>In this track, there&#8217;s a synth, guitar, and bass guitar. Raghav decided to use the snare to complement the guitar. He keeps it simple, hitting on 2 and 4 because when people hear disco music and want to dance, they need a solid backbeat to get them moving.<\/p>\n<p><em>What not to do:<\/em> Too much subdivision, too dense, or too many ghost notes. When the other instruments are playing a note-heavy riff, you don&#8217;t want to compete.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Hi-hats<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>What to do:<\/em> You can afford to make the hi-hats a little busier because they&#8217;ll be at a higher frequency compared to the other instruments in the track. There&#8217;s really a fine line between playing whats musical &#8211; and what fits the track &#8211; and being too complex.<\/p>\n<p><em>What not to do:<\/em> Make your hi-hat part too busy or too fast.<\/p>\n<p>The big takeaway here is to play musically and not step on the toes of another instrument. Your drumming can push the track forward but still have its own voice!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some grooves make you feel good while others don&#8217;t work at all? Here&#8217;s how to write a drum part that complements the music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":20789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-tips","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36150,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions\/36150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}