Easy ghost note funk groove steve jordan style drum. This is the text that should be added to the groovedb for this groove. Drummermartijns drum method book drummers of the future intermediate available in stores. Groove ghosting 16th notes on snare drum authenticdrummer. Midwayusa is a privately held american retailer of various hunting and. After mastering those drum beats, mix the openclose hihat patterns with the exercises in this series of free drum lessons on ghost notes. Download the pdf for an alternate notation as a 2 bar 16th note groove. Set your metronome to 50bpm and try to play whats written. Use the groovescribe to create new grooves, figure out the groove to your favorite song, or write down the groove to your latest tune. Youll also have the opportunity to see the difference between ghosted and nonghosted notes within a looped beat.
Ghost note are a percussionbased funk, hip hop and jazz group from dallas, texas, with a rotating membership based around founding drummer robert sput searight and founding percussionist nate werth, two members of the jazz band snarky puppy. Mastering the elusive swing eighth note is essential for playing jazz. He shows how to design grooves using various orchestrations including splits and switches, ghost notes, snare and bass drum displacements, linear groove concepts and much more. Youll see six, two bar grooves, of which the first three are shown in the video four times each. In this drum lesson i will show you a cool two bar ghost note groove. In this lesson we add bass drum notes and snare drum ghost notes also known as grace notes to the. The moment you nudge those seemingly insignificant notes back, you. Hundreds of pages of practice materials and transcriptions free to download. Here are some of the most jazz common ones every drummer should know. But in contrast to the regular hits, ghost notes are not as loud. Groovescribe allows drummers to easily create grooves, listen, share, print sheet music, and more. When not on the road, jeff stays busy gigging, teaching, recording, and creating drum lessons for his popular youtube channel. Pat petrillo is one of todays most prolific drummers, having backed such artists as patti labelle, gloria gaynor, glen burtnik and ed hamilton. Ghost notes double the left hand drum beats created date.
Toontrack shuffled backbeats midi the end of your shuffle trouble. How to program ghost notes for your midi drum tracks. To get started, simply phrase all your eighth notes like triplets. Groove essentials 20 19 18 there are hundreds of grooves from around the world and even more yet to be invented. The following ideas will build upon your technique of ghosting by introducing the technique of following an accented note with a ghost note. The previous lesson titled ghost note basics introduced you to ghost notes and how single ghost notes can be used to create unique and great sounding grooves this lesson will build upon that technique by using multiple left hand strokes in a row. Groove ghosting 16th notes on snare drum this lesson deals with adding 16th note variations on the snare drum to grooves. While ghost notes can be played on any part of a drum kit, most of the time our ghost notes are played on the snare drum. All of the drum beats in this lesson will focus on placing ghost notes between hihats, although this is isnt the only way they can be. We will look at placing ghost notes before and after accented snare drum notes in order to give you more options for the placement of ghost notes.
Ghost notes are the special sauce to any great drum groove. This groove demands incredible dynamic control and coordination. For the grooves to feel good, make sure you keep the nonaccented notes soft even when you play your bass drum. Ghost note crash 18 ride 22 ride 20 splash 10 rim shot rolls 8th note a slash through a note means that the drum should be struck repeatedly at 8th note quaver intervals for the duration of the note. Players and listeners, says jost, gravitate towards the groove because that is the center point. In it, youll learn how to identify and play these subtle notes within dynamic drum beats. No, theyre not made of thousand island dressing, but rather, notes subtly played on the snare drum, often filling in between the hi hat and the back beat. Youll discover some easy beats and ones that will challenge you. This page contains a selection of free online drum lessons. But since this is funk drumming and we want the beat to groove. Easy to use, its much more than a drum machine cause it can improvise musically with the most pure acoustic drum.
Groove in drum patterns as a function of both rhythmic properties and listeners attitudes. Im taking a gary chesterish approach here, by taking a hand pattern as the basis for a groove and working on bass drum independence against it. Kicks and ghosts over quarter note hihats make this groove pop. Gina knight, drum lessons girl, provides a few grooves that may help drummers learn how to play with ghost notes. A broad palette of shuffled drum grooves for anything from classic rock to modern pop. In musical notation, ghost notes are indicated in parenthesis surrounding the note. December 1, 2012 by gina in dlg grooves, drum lessons leave a comment. Drums linear drumming vii grooves, ghost notes, accents six linear skeleton drum fills. This album contains 34 drum tracks ranging from 67126 bpm. Imagine if you merged notation software with a drum machine and got a universally accessible, infinitely changeable, instantly sharable, online transcription tool that was free and easytouse. Their main purpose is to break up an otherwise rigid groove and make it seem livelier. This fills out a groove with subtle texture that wouldnt be possible without ghost notes.
Heres an exercise to develop and improve your ability to play ghost notes on an eight. Alex ribchester is a professional drummer and teacher based in royal tunbridge wells, uk. This first worksheet is a pdf with 16 independence exercises and you can download it here. This drum lesson gives a complete overview of ghost notes. Soft drummer is the closest thing to a pro session subtle drummer in your pocket. But ultimately, you can interpret them however you likeas long as they groove. Take your time, get it nice and tight, and slowly build up the tempo. Laying out some great ghost stroke patterns in a stepbystep method.
In this indepth hal leonard video series, legendary drummer mike clark herbie hancock, headhunters, eddie henderson, brand x explains and demonstrates the blues, funk and jazz roots behind his unique. Unsizable and taxaceous linoel 1001 drum grooves pdf precede their unclothes splashing or wrapped voiceless. The groove was built on top of a drum machine bass drum pattern with separate overdubs. For more tips on groove development, check the free live drum lesson developing groove on the drums. All of the drum beats in this lesson will focus on placing ghost notes between hihats, although this is isnt the only way they can be used, it is a great place to start when first learning. Remember to download the pdf file to get all 12 one bar patterns to workout with. Solo sku pso0010095 at our online store of digital music. Included in the download is a short blurb of my own thoughts on the subject of pocket as well brief description and personally suggested approach for each tune. Ghost notes refer to notes that are played on the snare drum inbetween the regular snare drum hits mostly on beats two and four, usually one 116 note earlier or later. In concept, this isnt ridiculously difficult and is a logical step for any drummer wanting to expand their rock beats. This song was the polices biggest hit and features one of copelands simplest drum parts. B, jam band, new orleans funk, fusion, drum n bass and many more. How to play every drum style from afrocuban to zydeco, the purpose of a ghost note is to. After you learn, practice and finish the grooves in this course, an entire world of songs will be open to you.
This is a great way to get use to not hitting the snare on 2 and 4. In drumming, a ghost note is played at very low volume, and typically on a snare drum. Embellish grooves with ghost notes drums player world. Note that he omits the first bass drum note as he repeats this incredible groove. How to play ghost notes drum lesson w drummermartijn.
Theres something about those swung eighth and sixteenth notes not only theoretically, but physically. Building your grooves course 2 this course is all about developing the freedom to play syncopated snare drum variations in your basic poprock groove. This is the ultimate broadstroke palette of grooves for use in any creative context from classic rock to modern pop. Intermediate ghost notes download pdf in this free drum lesson, jared falk teaches you how to play drum beats that incorporate ghost notes as 16th note triplets, and exercises where the ghost notes are played exactly one 16th note after and before accented shots. Meet groove scribe, the new browserbased drum notation tool developed by modern drummers 2016 clinicianeducator of the. Home drum techniques embellish grooves with ghost notes. Each is a two bar pattern, constant eighth notes on the hihats with variations on the bass drum and snare. Busy 32nd note groove daily drum lesson in this lesson i will show you a really busy 32nd note groove. More importantly, being able to play the snare drum in between the 8th note hihat pattern. The high hat that plays along with the snare is written here as a ghost note, as it replicates how most drummers would play this kind of beat. Be sure to checkout the accompanying video lesson for this lesson sheet. The first example below shows how a very simple 44 beat you might have heard this in acdcs you shook me all night long can be turned into a clever groove by. Theyre so quiet, you usually dont notice them when theyre there hence the.