Spoonman
Soundgarden · 1994
A staple for practicing groove in odd time signatures and percussion breaks.
- Artist
- Soundgarden
- Year
- 1994
- Genre
- grunge
- Drummer
- Matt Cameron
- Tempo
- 84 bpm
- Time
- 7/4
- Feel
- odd-meter groove
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
50bpm
Building
68bpm
Target
84bpm
The feel
A odd-meter groove in 7/4 around 84 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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Learn it
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