How to Build Drum Grooves Over Bass Lines

An Easy Guide for Expanding Your Rhythmic Vocabulary

How to Build Drum Grooves Over Bass Lines

An Easy Guide for Expanding Your Rhythmic Vocabulary

Series: How to Series Publisher: Hal Leonard Format: Softcover Audio Online Author: Alan Arber

This addition to the “How To...” series demonstrates how a drummer and bass player should interact with and respond to each other in different musical styles. Each section of the book presents a bass guitar line in the style of a specific genre, which is then followed by four different drum grooves. These mini-lessons achieve two goals: 1) they illustrate what a drummer should listen for in a bass line; and 2) they demonstrate how to build and execute proper drum grooves. Each exercise builds a drum groove by orchestrating which drum(s) can be played around that rhythm. You can use each exercise as a building block that leads to the fourth (and final) groove of each section. Includes over 200 audio tracks!