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This groove was inspired by Carter Beauford’s playing on the song “Kit Kat Jam”, from the Dave Matthews Band album Busted Stuff. It’s an instrumental jam in 3/4, with an unusually driving bass and drum pattern — hear the excerpt below.

What I’ve written is not Beauford’s part, but a sort of counterpoint that could be played against it: for example, Beauford plays the snare on 2, whereas this groove plays an echo on the + of 2. The “Kit Kat” groove is pretty sparse, leaving room for interplay with other instruments.

       main groove--------------|variation---|fill--------|
       
       1 + 2 + 3 + |1 + 2 + 3 + |1 + 2 + 3 + |1 + 2 + 3 + |
3  HH  xxxxxx xxx  |xxxxxx  xx x|xx x xx xx x|
-  SD        o   oo|      oo  o |  o o  o  o |  (whatever)
4  KD  o  oo       |o  oo     o |o    o oo   |

Also provided here is a variation on the main groove. It could be used to set up a fill or chorus or any melodic change. The variation is a 1-bar rhythm, written above. In a typical application, you’d play the first two bars (the main groove) throughout a section of music, and then segue into the variation and fill at the end of the section.

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