Jamjar
Foundation 4/4
The hi-hat marks the pulse. Kick on 1 and 3 alternates with snare on 2 and 4.
Settings & sources
Quarter-note hi-hat
Keep four even hi-hat strokes while kick and snare alternate. Hold it for eight bars.
Your take is saved separately for each groove on this device. Comparison alternates one bar each, or four-bar phrases for the backbeat answer study and when a fill is selected.
With music adds an original synthesized bass-and-chord arrangement (Am · F · C · G). Each comparison uses matching harmony.
Kit: original backbeat, cymbal, hi-hat foot, tom, linear and jazz swing studies. Djembe: original 4/4 exercises, not named traditional rhythms.
Difficulty levels order this library’s base patterns at 60–80 BPM. Tempo, muted parts, fills, and fading support change the challenge. These are suggested levels, not assessed grades or a complete advanced curriculum.
No microphone or automatic scoring.
Learn further
- Drumeo: getting started on drums ↗
- Zildjian: grooves using the toms ↗
- Drumeo: linear orchestration ↗
- Michael Pluznick: the three djembe strokes ↗
- Afrodrumming: the slap stroke ↗
Jazz kit: Virtuosity Drums — Versilian Studios & Karoryfer, CC0. Recorded ride, pedal hi-hat, snare, and kick; edited for this practice mix. Swing uses a fixed triplet grid.
Djembe recording: Michi Henning, 2012, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bass, tone, and slap excerpted, trimmed, end-faded, and converted to mono WAV. These audio excerpts retain that license.
On this device
Tempo, groove, and handedness are saved separately for kit and djembe. No account, microphone, or uploaded practice data.