The Groove Pizza is a playful web-based interface for learning and teaching drum programming. It was developed by the NYU Steinhardt Music Experience Design Lab. Click the image below to try it:
Tutorials:
More Groove Pizza resources:
- Book chapter on the Groove Pizza’s development
- Groove challenges
- Seeing classic beats with the Groove Pizza
- Visualizing trap beats with the Groove Pizza
- The polyrhythmic Groove Pizzeria
- The work of the late Godfried Toussaint was a major inspiration for the Groove Pizza, read some of it here
- An excellent elementary lesson plan from NYU masters student Jessica Rowe
More drum programming resources:
- A collection of useful drum patterns
- Swing primer
- The great blues musician Taj Mahal explains to a German audience how to clap on the backbeat.
- Harry Connick Jr turns the beat around
- The backbeat: A literature review
- Why is son clave so awesome?
- American Clave/Ragtime Country
- Ten classic Roland TR-808 patterns
- Egyptian Lover builds a beat on the 808