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mostly the grooves are things i do on the piano when i'm messing around. i often use them to introduce songs that have a similar feel to them to help set the time up, or utilize them as interludes in songs between solos or wherever, or use them at the ends of songs.
in songs that i compose, i use groove ideas throughout the song as i feel that time and groove are much more important in music than how many different chords you can fit in, at least in some kinds of music.
they can also be used at turn arounds. in the example above (groove 3) you could use it as a turn-around in a tune that's in f minor, especially a latin or funk tune.
the idea is to free up your mind from the sheet music and just start playing. turn your metronome on, work out one of the grooves, and then start changing it around until you have a new groove. i can spend hours doing that kind of thing. then as the grooves become more of your playing, you will intuitively know how they can fit into tunes that you already know.
hard to explain it because i haven't done any real study of where to put those grooves into tunes, i just know that i do it quite a bit in my own playing when it's appropriate.
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