Building Polymetric Grooves Using 3, 16 Kick Drum

David Oromaner shares a tip on how to apply a 3, 16 polymetric rhythm to the bass drum to create rock grooves These exercises, which utilize 316 kick drum patterns (continuous dotted 8th notes), will help build your polymetric groove vocabulary. We ll start with playing just the kick drum pattern against a quarter note to get familiar with the three measure phrasenotice the 4 against 3 pattern. Then well mix in the measure positions with 8th notes on the hats and snare drum backbeats in order to creat