The "Backbeat" | A Brief History & Drum Lesson 

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“people clap on the 2 and 4” people at my school assemblies: “1 and 3? got it.”

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Look up the 5/4 trick by Harry Connick Jr. He's playing 4/4 but everyone is clapping on 1 and 3, so he plays 1 bar of 5/4 and the clapping shifts to 2 and 4. Cool stuff.

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“When people clap along to music they’re clapping on the 2 and the 4.” The Spanish: Hah! Amateurs! [clapping in flamenco]

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The term "Backbeat" has been around since Chuck Berry wrote the song "Rock and Roll Music" in May 1957. In the song he sings "it's got a backbeat you can't loose it". The Beatles and The Beach Boys also covered the song in the 60's and had hits with it. So, the term has been around long before the seventies.

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Moving the 2 back to the “and” but keeping the 4 in place sounds like Chad Smith from RHCP. On Souk To Squeeze he moves the first and second measure 2’s back to their respective “and” while keeping the 4 in place but then goes straight 2 and 4 on the third and fourth measures. That’s one line that has eluded me. It’s nice to see it up on the board so I can math it in my head. Thanks Brandon!

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I've always wondered why 2 and 4 became the back beat and literally not anything else

As a Music Producer, some reggae and ska have their own type of beat. They not only not in the 2 beat but also have a ghost notes before it.

Great video. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, long before the internet flooded us with an endless stream of free teaching material, I mostly had to teach drumming to myself. A lot of the time I'd spend hours just experimenting with moving stuff around a little and figure out what sounded good (you don't even have to be on a drumset necessarily). And while I wish I had only 10% of the material every aspiring drummer has on their finger tips these days, I think this freeform experimenting approach is still something younglings should do occasionally. It's amazing how deeply you can learn when you accidentally land dead-center in groove town on your own, without imitating what someone else does.

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*Instead of moving the backbeat ahead or behind by an even 16th note..., try just lagging the snare hits by a few milliseconds, while keeping the kick and hat dead on the beat... That's one of the secrets to getting that epic Bonhamesque heaviness..., while adding just a touch of swing, but still keeping it more straight than swing... You can then 'tighten' or 'loosen' the groove by adjusting the lag on the snare, more lag for more looseness, and vice/versa... The trick is just keeping that lag even...*

tropical trap beats are one of the more popular non back beat drum patterns. its cool

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A very good and informative tutorial!

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2:21 I was a kid when RHCP's "Soul to squeeze" released (before I started playing), and I just couldn't figure out what Smith was doing with the backbeat. It was the first time I think I'd heard that done, and I don't think I ever reflected on what a big deal that was, especially in popular music.

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Any modern musician: The backbeat doesn’t have to be on 2 & 4! James Brown:

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