Country drum beats to play online
Song grooves
· Simplified drum grooves in the style of famous songs — not exact transcriptions.
Country drumming leans on the train beat and simple two-step patterns, with brushes or light sticks on the snare.
The style in numbers (from our 4 grooves)
- Tempo range
- 70–110 BPM
- Typical tempo
- 106 BPM
- Most common groove
- rock ballad beat (2/4)
- Grooves with ghost notes
- 50%
- Shuffle or triplet feel
- 0%
- Time signatures
- 4/4
Country songs
- Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash · 106 BPM
- Jolene Dolly Parton · 110 BPM
- Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver · 82 BPM
- Evidências Chitãozinho & Xororó · 70 BPM
Typical country drum patterns
The grooves most songs in this genre are built on. Learn these and the rest are small variations.
rock ballad beat · Easy
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| Kick |
train beat · Easy
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