The "Backbeat" | A Brief History & Drum Lesson

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“people clap on the 2 and 4” people at my school assemblies: “1 and 3? got it.”

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If you understand the clap as a hi hat, you have a perfectly fine off beat! There is no wrong in drumming

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People at my school assemblies: *can’t keep a steady beat for the life of them*

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Look up the 5/4 trick by Harry Connick Jr. He's playing 4/4 but everyone is clapping on 1 and 3, so he plays 1 bar of 5/4 and the clapping shifts to 2 and 4. Cool stuff.

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[@jerrykecken8458]

The term "Backbeat" has been around since Chuck Berry wrote the song "Rock and Roll Music" in May 1957. In the song he sings "it's got a backbeat you can't loose it". The Beatles and The Beach Boys also covered the song in the 60's and had hits with it. So, the term has been around long before the seventies.

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“When people clap along to music they’re clapping on the 2 and the 4.” The Spanish: Hah! Amateurs! [clapping in flamenco]

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Get a pair of drumsticks and a practice pad! You can buy both for less than $50 and could even use something like a mousepad on a book. That way, you can start learning a few beats without making any big commitments. And, hey, if it turns out you're up for the journey, it'd be awesome to see other lady drummers out there....sometimes it feels like I'm the only one!!

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@@exquisitecorpse4917 my dad actually owns a drum set! all i really need is the time and the willing to try it out haha but yeah, i also feel like we need more girls behind the drums! it's very nice to receive encouraging words from one of them, thank you 🤍

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dave grohl is a master at shifting the traditional rock pattern into something interesting

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Agreed. Carl palmer is also really good at it. He always shifts his snare hits

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Then there was Stewart Copeland...

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Great video. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, long before the internet flooded us with an endless stream of free teaching material, I mostly had to teach drumming to myself. A lot of the time I'd spend hours just experimenting with moving stuff around a little and figure out what sounded good (you don't even have to be on a drumset necessarily). And while I wish I had only 10% of the material every aspiring drummer has on their finger tips these days, I think this freeform experimenting approach is still something younglings should do occasionally. It's amazing how deeply you can learn when you accidentally land dead-center in groove town on your own, without imitating what someone else does.

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[@steelman774]

Moving the 2 back to the “and” but keeping the 4 in place sounds like Chad Smith from RHCP. On Souk To Squeeze he moves the first and second measure 2’s back to their respective “and” while keeping the 4 in place but then goes straight 2 and 4 on the third and fourth measures. That’s one line that has eluded me. It’s nice to see it up on the board so I can math it in my head. Thanks Brandon!

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I’m applauding you on your back beat. It’s the only beat I know. Great video, mucho love.

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Oh man......that was sweeeeeeet!! Never heard a better explanation on the “back beat” ! Love the visuals , this totally drove the point home. GREAT job!

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As a Music Producer, some reggae and ska have their own type of beat. They not only not in the 2 beat but also have a ghost notes before it.

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yo starting at like 4:55 - 5:00ish your kick drum is REALLY singing - lots of ring, overtones, body. I love hearing a whole bass drum instead of just a thud! LOVE that sound there! :-)

[@AnewContraption]

man, you're speaking right to me. I'm a self taught drummer , with the help of a few friends. I've always loved playing around with the placement of the snare, and basically everything else. playing alone it's easy to lose myself in new grooves, but when I would jam with friends I could only ever find myself playing basic 4/4 backbeats, unless it was a more specific type of style. I don't blame the other players I think it's just a mechanism of keeping things smooth

[@kiwiingenuity6666]

I've always wondered why 2 and 4 became the back beat and literally not anything else

[@rkomada88]

It comes from the "tap-roll-tap-roll-tap" pattern found in marches that snare drummers play. The march was Americas first pop music craze beginning around 1850, through the civil war era and up to the early teens (1915). The first commercially produced jazz record (1917) has a bit of a March feel to it. The roll itself is usually a five stroke roll, a basic rudiment.

[@joedoherty1062]

I do this sortof thing all the time, such a simple way to spice things up without confusing the listener. I like to scoot the "4" snare note back a 16th, like you did in the video. it makes it groove hard IMO, I call it the anticipation groove. I think playing with anticipation and subverting expectations can play a big part in making something groove.

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Been off the wagon for a while and I needed the refresher, thanks

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Wow.thanks for this, I heard a song from the 80s has this kind of back beat but I'm not sure if I heard it right because Im just starting to learn drums. Thank you for this and the visual is so helpful

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0:15 I've heard this beat before but don't know where 😄

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[@Kreln1221]

*Instead of moving the backbeat ahead or behind by an even 16th note..., try just lagging the snare hits by a few milliseconds, while keeping the kick and hat dead on the beat... That's one of the secrets to getting that epic Bonhamesque heaviness..., while adding just a touch of swing, but still keeping it more straight than swing... You can then 'tighten' or 'loosen' the groove by adjusting the lag on the snare, more lag for more looseness, and vice/versa... The trick is just keeping that lag even...*

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A very good and informative tutorial!

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Awesome video! Your editing skills are ridiculous and those grooves were sick! I love backbeat displacement especially when pulsing quarter notes on a stacker! Keep up the great work dude!!

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Lovely video production! I really enjoy the composition when you put the tabs with part of the drum set

[@armandogonzales2960]

2:21 I was a kid when RHCP's "Soul to squeeze" released (before I started playing), and I just couldn't figure out what Smith was doing with the backbeat. It was the first time I think I'd heard that done, and I don't think I ever reflected on what a big deal that was, especially in popular music.

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I learned more in this video than I did in 4 months of drum lessons

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Maybe you studied with the wrong teacher or didn't get that far in your lessons.

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Liked the Zackgrooves end

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I love the fact that the intro its a tribute to PH intro

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First of all... Was amazed and stoked to see gabe in the video! 😁 Hope you have a few more videos with him in them and bring out some cool colabs together! You guys jamming or even a drum battle would be insane! 😝🤘 Secondly. Great video man! I'm sure this video was supposed to be more aimed towards beginners but, I noticed when you were playing along to the first few in the middle of the video, when you are moving the snare hits around. You were doing lots of ghost notes and extra beats too. Which is wicked cool and all but I suggest most of the drummers that would be needing this info, may possibly get confused with hearing the extra notes to what they are seeing/reading? I don't know but I know I loved it and was fine with reading the music and following what you were playing and saying.

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