Hi I’m a newbie as you can tell. I’m trying to get a better grasp and understanding of the different grooves. Are there any videos that cover this?
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And we were all newbies once so don’t worry about it 
This is taken from another site
When a musician performs a piece of music a natural groove is created. Depending on the style of music, mood (or ability!) of the musician and timing of the other performers, the groove will vary infinitely. Of course sometimes we don’t intend to introduce a groove into our music and we may just think what we have played is out of time—but even a phrase played with sloppy timing contains its own individual groove.
A lot of people’s initial way of dealing with any sort of sloppy playing or overly swung parts is to quantize them to a rigid 16th grid so everything falls into place. This can work in some situations but often the result feels artificial and a little robotic.
The answer is to apply grooves to your performance, this way things will feel a little more human and match other parts in your project. Live’s introduction of the groove engine is a welcomed change as previous versions were a touch limited in this area.
There are many ways to apply grooves from presets to creating your own custom patterns. Live 8 even allows you to extract grooves from existing audio or MIDI but we will look at each of these methods as we go.
groove can best be described as feel.
I really struggle with “groove”.
I’ve watched countless videos where they say “here’s the track without groove, and here it is with groove. As you can hear, it’s a huge difference”
I sit there thinking “what the hell? It sounds exactly the same”.
However, when I’m banging out stuff on my keyboard I often make mistakes that end up being quite good. I guess this could be my own understanding of “groove”.