Some of you may disagree, but to my mind playing time behind a drum set, whether it be rock, jazz, latin, or any other genre of music has to do mainly with the cymbals and snare. While the bass drum is, of course, important it’s secondary in the sense that you can still lay down a beat without bass kicks even though the integration of the bass drum with the cymbal and snare helps to create a groove. Besides, the bass player also helps to create a groove together with the drummer.The following post shows just 45 of the many possible cymbal/snare beats for rock in 5/8 time. The beats are comprised of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, sixteenth triplets, and even thirty second notes. The idea is for you to play each bar as a separate exercise, putting in your own bass drum variations. For each cymbal/snare beat there are many potential variations. With just this one page you could create hundreds of cymbal/snare/bass grooves for rock in 5/8 time. Keep in mind the same type of cymbal/snare combinations could be used in 5/4 time and even 5/16 time. In the past few years there’s been an explosion in the use of odd time signatures, especially those with a numerator of 5. NOTE: The cymbal/snare rhythms in this post are phrased 3/8+2/8. When you complete the page as written try reversing it and create groves with the phrasing 2/8+3/8.
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