The pattern
124 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step · swing 10%
| Instrument | Beat 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Beat 2 | Step 6 | Step 7 | Step 8 | Beat 3 | Step 10 | Step 11 | Step 12 | Beat 4 | Step 14 | Step 15 | Step 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kick | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Rim shot | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit |
| Low tom | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Two bars of 2/4 written as one of 4/4. Zabumba: mallet hits on the low head on 1 and 1a (dotted eighth + sixteenth figure, kick lane) and a muffled hit on 2 (toml lane); the thin stick ('bacalhau') on the lower head plays the offbeats (rim lane). Triangle: continuous sixteenths with the closing hand (chh) and the open hit on the last sixteenth of each beat (ohh). Xote is slower (80–100), 'pé-de-serra' forró and arrasta-pé faster (up to 160). Light swing on the sixteenths.