10 Easy Steps To Create Unique Grooves | Drum Lesson With Chris Hoffmann

Creating your own individual grooves is a key aspect in finding your own voice on the drums. Being able to evolve a unique groove out of a simple rhythmic figure will open up many possibilities for you.
Chris created this video to share 10 simple but effective ways he uses to create his very own grooves. He also gives some very helpful insight into his personal process of making simple grooves more interesting.

00:00 Intro
00:44 Level 1 - Rhythmic Melody
01:30 Level 2 - Melody Between Bass Drum & Snare Drum
02:12 Level 3 - Adding A Hi-Hat Ostinato
03:16 Level 4 - Adding Ghost Notes
04:36 Level 5 - Syncopated Hi-Hat Figure
05:26 Level 6 - Adding Dynamics
06:46 Level 7 - Adding Texture
07:37 Level 8 - Adding Ornamentations
08:46 Level 9 - Adding More Ornamentations
09:11 Level 10 - Improvising Inside This Groove Environment

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Equipment used in this video:

Drum Kit:

Gretsch Renown
Finish: Natural Gloss
Bass Drums: 22x16
Toms: 12x8, 14x14
Snare: 14x6.5 Ludwig Supraphonic

Cymbals:

Zildjian
14" Avedis Hats
19" K Constantinople Crash Ride
20" K Constantinople Medium Thin Low

Microphones:

Bassdrum: TG D71
Snare: M 201 TG (top)/ TG D 58 (bottom)
Overheads: M 90 Pro X

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[ChrisHoffmannTube]

This was fun putting this list together. Would you be interested in a lesson using these 10 Steps to create Triplet Grooves?

[AvStevieStevenJamesDrums]

What a fun integrating lesson. So awesome. Thank you Chris. 🙏🏻

[nickfine]

Superb lesson, your best video to date imho!! Thanks very much, I'll be coming back to this again and again.

[nhanel]

good thing this video popped on, just what i needed, thank u

[userdd]

Hello Thanks man;) very Nice Groove, Nice explanations!! Kiss of Paris :))

[bishopoftroy]

Ended up with the most common groove ever :)))

[TheBawss]

I'm not even a drummer but these are amazing tips!

[billbigler]

Chris superb lesson as always. Yes to the triplet groove process! Also do you have a like process for creating fills? If not can you develop one for us? Thanks very much. Bill.

[BraeburnTV]

“How to create a unique drum groove.”
*plays a rudiment on the rim of a tom*