Groupings of 3 | Syncopated Rhythms | Drum Lesson | Thomann

Hi folks, what's up? My name is Simon, welcome to Thomann's Drum Bash. And I mentioned it a lot in different other videos, but never explained it. So today's video is about groupings of three. The use of groupings of three is very widespread in the music world. Hits like Clocks by Coldplay. Or Take a Look Around by Limp Bizkit. Or Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles, used in the most varied of versions. Let me briefly explain to you how this works rhythmically. It's actually quite simple. The rhythm always repeats after three strokes. Most commonly used in a 16th or 32nd note subdivision to create a syncopated pattern. Side note, syncopation is a placement of rhythmic accents where they wouldn't normally occur. Starting the grouping on the second or third note will add more variety and you can later combine the different syncopated rhythms, resulting from the different starting points. Does that sound familiar? Yep, it's the Bossa Nova clave. Let me now show you how that can be used in grooves and fills. The best known groupings of three pattern in fills is Right Left Kick. Drummers like Ian Pace from Deep Purple or John Bonham from Led Zeppelin often played that pattern, although they played it with a triple fill, so no syncopated rhythms. But here's the rhythm in a 16th note and later in a 32nd note subdivision context. What I love to do when it comes to grooves is to work with short phrases of groupings of three. And I'd like to show you two different ones in two different tempos. The first one has a length of one bar and the second one a length of two bars. Thanks a lot everybody, I hope you enjoyed this lesson, please give me a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment with what you'd like to learn in one of the future lessons and ring the bell so that we can hopefully see each other again next week, Wednesday in a new video. Until then, take care, Simon out, bye bye.