This is an example of playing in front of the beat. By contrast, the kick drum hit on beat 1.3 is a little early. This was almost certainly intentional drummers call it playing behind the beat.
Most of them are a little late, especially the snare hits. As you can see, while the drummer is keeping fairly steady time, no hit falls precisely on the nearest sixteenth note. The drum hits’ onsets are marked with little yellow tags in the timeline. Here’s a classic example of groove: the drum break that opens “Impeach The President” by the Honey Drippers, shown in Ableton Live’s loop editor.Įach big blob in the audio waveform is a drum hit. In music software, “groove” means something specific and technical: the degree to which a rhythm deviates from the straight metronomic grid. Music software can similarly help you understand the even more elusive concept of groove. I’ve written previously about how electronic music quantifies the elusive concept of swing. Using digital audio production software, you can learn to understand the most mystical aspects of music in concrete terms. But groove is something tangible, too, and even quantifiable. Most of my musician friends talk about groove as a feeling, a vibe, an ineffable emotional quality, and they’re right. Meanwhile, it’s possible for loosely executed music to have a groove to it. When a classical musician executes a passage flawlessly, you don’t usually talk about their groove. Musicians ride the groove the way a phonograph needle physically rides the groove in the vinyl.īut what is groove, exactly? It isn’t just a matter of everyone playing with accurate rhythm. A lot of musicians couldn’t explain exactly, beyond “the thing that makes music sound good.” The etymology of the term comes from vinyl records. You hear musicians talk all the time about groove.
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