Summary: A bossa nova drum-beat rhythm is made up of syncopated ride hits, snare-drum rim clicks on both downbeats and upstrokes and an ostanato bass-drum pattern. Play a basic bossa nova drum-beat and discover a Latin style of drumming with tips and lessons from an experienced Latin drummer in this free video.
"Hello there here we go now the moment you've all been waiting for. We're going to do the full Bossa Nova, that's right we're going to do the full thing all out, here we go. So you know what to do. We have got the grooves going with the ostinato on the kick, two and four on the hi hat, the one and two and three and four and one two and three and four. All those grooves. The two, the end of three, the one, the end of two and then the four on the rim and then we're going to be doing the eighth note grooving on the ride cymbal right there. So here we go one, two, one, two buckle my shoe."
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