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Until the 1950s, Jazz music was the contemporary music. It was pop music. It’s what you heard when you turn on the radio. Jazz is distinctive in the fact that it uses a swing pattern which is complicated. If you listen to a lot of the old jazz drummers, you’re going to notice that they’re doing crazy things well beyond with the early rock drummers are doing in the ‘50s.
Rock and roll came around as a result of the back beat which replaced in popular music the swing beat. The back beat creates a very steady, even pattern that anyone can recognize and it is used by accenting on the two and the four. If you can imagine clapping your hands to a song, that is essentially back beating.
Jazz beats don’t do that, which is why rock and roll essentially took over from jazz because it’s more understandable to the masses.
What I’m going to do is I’m going to play for you right now a very simple, the simplest back beat, a rock beat, and then I’m going to explain how to go about learning it.
[Demonstration]
So, that was the simplest back beat. I'm sure you recognize it from a lot of your favorite rock and roll tunes. Of course, you could play it in all kinds of different tempos, speeds. Tempo and speed means the same thing.
So here it is much faster. [Demonstration]
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