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Pick a card and play along. It tests one skill at a time and tells you exactly where you are on it. An electronic kit plugged in by USB is measured as you play; on an acoustic kit you rate each test yourself.
GrooveIQ
Grooves
One style a card: its bass/kick and snare patterns, hi-hat rhythms, the ride, accents and ghost notes.
2&4 Backbeat (Rock/Pop)
Twenty-four snare and bass drum patterns under hi-hat 8ths — then the ride, open hi-hats, accents, ghost notes and the toms.
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Four on the Floor
The bass/kick on every beat under a 2 & 4 backbeat: the beat of Mr Brightside, Seven Nation Army, Uptown Funk and Sex on Fire, the most common groove after the rock beat in the songs analysed.
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Half-Time
The snare on 3 only, so the song feels half as fast: Zombie, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Chop Suey!, My Hero and Lying From You.
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Backbeat + Extra Snare
The 2 & 4 backbeat with a snare added between the beats, the syncopation in Come As You Are, Faint, Dani California, Can't Stop and Wonderwall.
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Broken Hi-hat
A 2 & 4 backbeat while the hand leaves gaps in the 8ths: I Love Rock 'n' Roll, Basket Case, American Idiot, Holding On to You and Duality.
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Driving Snare
The snare on every beat or on every &, the push behind Valerie, Last Nite, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Just a Girl and Teenage Dirtbag.
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FillIQ
Fills
One sticking a card, built from a single cell into fills across the bar.
RL
Single strokes. The motif every fill is built from.
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RLK
Hand, hand, foot. In 3s and across one and two bars of 16ths, with the kick moved round the cell.
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RLKK
Hand, hand, foot, foot. In 4s, then across the triplets, with the double kick moved round the cell.
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RLLK
A double stroke and a kick. In 4s, then across the triplets, started from every note of the cell.
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RK
Hand, foot. The bass/kick between every stroke, in 8ths, triplets and 16ths.
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RLLR
Inverted doubles: the double in the middle, so the fill starts and ends on one hand.
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RLRRLL
The paradiddle-diddle: a single, a single, two doubles. Two beats of triplets, then across the 16ths.
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RRLLK
Two doubles and a kick: five notes that sit across the beat and come home on 1.
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RLRR LRLL
The single paradiddle: two singles and a double, leading from each hand in turn — round the kit, in 16ths and across the triplets.
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