How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

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Juan Expósito
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How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby Juan Expósito » Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:25 am

I´m re-organizating my written lessons for my students.
Here are some basic rock/funk HH patterns with snare in 2 and 4, for playing BD variations against them.

How do you call beats 3 and 4 ?

1. Rock beat, based in eight notes.
2. Rock/funk beat, based in sixteenth notes (2 hands)
3.
4.

Beats 3 and 4 have 2 basic cascara patterns, so I´m calling them latin 1 and latin 2 HH patterns

I would like to know if there are more standard names for them (beats 3 and 4), with the snare in 2 and 4 and rock/funk oriented BD patterns.

Thanks.

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Re: How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby chris perra » Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:39 am

If you played the kick on 1 and 3.... number 4 could be considered a 2 step or polka

Number 3 isn't a common beat to me..So I don't know a standard name for that one
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Re: How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby gretsch-o-rama » Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:47 am

Gary Chaffee identifies them as variations of right hand ostinatos.
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Re: How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby bstocky » Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:11 am

I'd call them HH variations or Benny Greb letters. This is the alphabet.
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These are the triplet letters.
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Re: How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby David Francis » Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:11 am

I always wished there was a sensible name for those two rhythms! I believe Gary Chester referred to them as "Wac-a-chuck" and "Reverse Wac-a-chuck"
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Re: How do you call these basic beats/grooves ?

Postby Jim Richman » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:08 am

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