Percussion

There’s nothing wrong with a four-to-the-floor backbeat, kick drum on beat one and three, and the snare on two and four. You get this syndrome where guitarists will play a fingerstyle tune and then slap the strings on beats two and four and occasionally make a kick drum sound on one and three.

The problem is that they sound like not even the worst drummer: a metronome. You could add the same colour to their music by just switching on a metronome.

You need to be creative, don’t just settle for the most obvious thing that only a drummer in their first lesson would ever use. Try to create grooves that are interesting by moving the drum beats off the obvious beats.