Level 3 · Your First Groove · 3-4
Ghosts & accents
Same notes, pro sound: whisper ghosts, cracking snares.
What you play
B bass · S snare · g ghost · rest1
B
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g
2
S
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g
3
B
&
g
4
S
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g
70 BPM
startpass
How to play it
- 1Play the groove from 3-1 , same notes as before, with extreme layering: ghosts barely audible, bass full and warm, snares accented and sharp.
- 2Shrink the ghosts until your fingers stay at contact distance and move a few millimetres.
- 3Get the snare accent from the speed of the whip, not from effort.
- 4Your take answers one question: can you hear three distinct volume layers?
- 5Record about 90 seconds.
Listen forThree clearly distinct dynamic layers - whisper ghosts, full bass, accented snare - inside a steady groove.
start 70 · pass 90 BPM · take about 90s
Record a take
I start the click at 70 BPM, count one bar, and stop after about 90s. Phone about a metre away, facing the front plate. You get my notes within a minute of sending it.
Watch out for
- • Ghosts disappearing entirely. They should be felt and barely heard.
- • Accents dragging the tempo
- • The layering collapsing at the faster tempo
Read about this
- Ghost notes: the quiet strokes that make a grooveThe near-silent taps between the loud notes, and why yours are probably too loud.