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The swing pulse is the father, mother, and granddaddy of the 7 beats here in this book. The history of the modern drum beats comes from the swing beat of the early 1920’s. A swing beat has a lovely wonderful gentle feel that makes you want to move and dance in time to the beat/rhythmic pulse of the music.

The jazz beat derives from the 3 over 2 polyrhythm which is moving into intermediate drumming and I cover this in my 600 page complete The Beginners Guide to Drumming e-book, which you can get on my website.

However, at this time you can think of a jazz beat as in a way half of a shuffle beat.

The major difference that Jazz Beats have in contrast to the other beats in this book is the leading right hand pattern is played on the ride cymbal.

The ride cymbal gives the groove a different sound than if it were played on the hi hat. This gives us the distant jazz sound of the longer ringing wash sound from the ride.

Also, the snare and bass drum are played more lighter and more softly in contrast to the stronger accents that 8^th note rock and pop and shuffle grooves on the main beats of 1 2 3 and 4.

Listen to this standard jazz beat and see what I mean:

601 – 120 BPM Basic Jazz Beat

Note for learning purposes in the next sound file, I have mixed the bass and snare loud and heavy so you can hear how they co-ordinate with the ride cymbal. When playing in a real jazz situation, as I say above the bass and snare are played much softer.

Listen to this and see what I mean:

601a – 120 BPM Basic Jazz Beat –Heavy Snare and bass

602 - Basic Jazz Beat Count

1 2 e 3 4 e

The basis jazz beat in addition to a common bass drum on beats 1 and 3 uses the hi-hat with the left foot to play/accent the 2 and 4 beat. The use of the your two feet together in playing this beat really helps give an

underlying foundation/groove to it.

However, lets get you playing the jazz cymbal pattern Here it is played nice and slow at 60 bpm

603 - 60 BPM Basic Jazz Beat Ride Cymbal Pattern

The ride cymbal pattern is the same as the shuffle hi hat cymbal pattern but this time we play it on the ride cymbal rather than the hi-hat This gives us the jazz sound of the long ring wash sound from the ride.

Now once you are comfortable with that we need to co-ordinate our right hand playing the ride pattern with our right foot playing the bass drum on beats 1 and 3

604 - 60 BPM Basic Jazz Beat ride and bass only

Can you hear how the second hit of the ride cymbal is co-ordinated with the bass drum ?

604a - 120 BPM Basic Jazz Beat ride and bass only

When you are comfortable with your right hand and your right foot working together we can introduce the left hand on the snare

605 - 60 BPM Basic Jazz Beat

Now when you are happy playing the main jazz beat without the left foot, we can move on to bringing your left foot into the groove.

Now I am going to show you a good method of bringing your left foot in to play the hi hat and making it strongly connected with you bass drum foot.

It is called the “Heal Toe” method as you will see why in a minute, but don’t worry it is pretty easy to master, because if I can, then anybody can!!.

Now here is our standard jazz beat but with just the right and left feet playing on the quarter notes

606 - Basic Jazz Beat with just feet playing

1 2 e 3 4 e

Right foot

X X

Left Foot

X X

In this sound file I have brought the sound of the bass and hi hat louder so you can easily hear it

Now to help to get this going, we’ll use the “heal/toe” method.

The heal/toe method has you rolling your heal and toe between the heal of one foot and the ball of your other foot at the same time like this

1) On beat 1 – Put the ball of your right foot down and at the same time rock back onto the heel of your left foot.

2) On beat 2 – Do the opposite that is put the ball of your left foot

4) On beat 4 – Guess what you do ????? Repeat same as beat 2!!!! Hey isn’t this drum thing simple or what!!!

What you are doing is having you feet play the quarter note pulse of the music which gives the groove that solid feel, but for the time being, this will help you get your hands and feet in synch with each other and in time.

Now go back to the hands and whilst playing the Jazz beat with your hands add the heal/toe feet movements of your feet.

Take this slowly and easy to start with as always.

Get you hands and feet moving right and correct first and only then start to play faster.

You can, of course, use this technique with all other types of beats too.

As with the Shuffle beat once you have the core movements correct you need to listen and play along with Jazz songs as Jazz is a huge feel style of music. So play along to your hearts content to get the sense and feel of Jazz.

Jazz drumming is a world within the drumming world and many drummers spend a lifetime within it.

The following songs are good songs to listen to get a feel for Jazz and some shuffle beats.

Artist Title Drummer Cllfford Brown and

Max Roach

Cllfford Brown and Max Roach

Max Roach

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Moanin Art Blakey

Roy Haynes We Three Roy Haynes

Miles Davis Milestones Philly Joe Jones Art Pepper Art Pepper + Eleven Mel Lewis

Thelonious Monk Monk’s Dream Frankie Dunlop Dave Brubeck Live at Carnegie Hall

(includes the

wonderful “Take 5”

song)

Joe Morello

Buddy Rich The Monster Buddy Rich Robbie Williams Swing when you are

winning

Ralph Simms

Well, that is the 7 beats done. I hope that you have got the hang of them OK.

5.1 Adding spice to your grooves with more bass drums

If you listen to the songs I have listed above and in particular in the 8^th note rock and pop grooves, you will quickly hear that there are more snare hits and bass drum hits in the these songs than the basic 8^th note rock and pop grooves I showed you earlier.

They have the common 8^th note rock and pop beat at their core, but the drummer or drum programmer has added extra snare and bass drum

strokes to the groove. This is called many things but in musical terms it is called “Syncopation”.

A syncopated rhythm is a rhythm where a beat falls with equal emphasises in between the main beats. In our case, of the 8^th note rock and pop beat, the main beats of 1,2,3 and 4 are the main beats. These are the beats that are the pulse of the music.

These beats are called the “on” beats and the beats in between marked up by the “+” sign are called the “off” beats.

All styles of music use syncopation in some way or another to make the groove more interesting and to fit with other parts of the song played by the guitar, bass, keyboards and of course the vocalist. I hear syncopation in pretty much all music styles: Rock, Jazz, Soul, RnB, Pop, , But two of the biggest genres that use syncopation are Funk and Hip Hop.

Funk and Hip Hop are probably the two biggest users of syncopation. To get a feel for this style you need to go and listen to James Brown’s music and the drummers of James Brown including Clayton Filliyau, Nat Kendrick, John “Jabo” Stacks, and Clyde Stubblefield. These guys laid down some of the most famous funk tracks ever recorded Cold Sweat, Pappa got a brand new pig bag and the all time classic’s Get Up I Feel Like a Sex Machine and Funky Drummer.

Hip Hop is musical decendant of Funk and Soul and so many of today's great hip hop grooves have come from the "Funk" drummers of the 60's and 70's. To hear some great hip hop grooves with syncopation listen to albums such as Justin Timberlake's Future Sex/Love Sounds, The Roots,