The pattern
126 BPM · 4/4 · 32 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 | Beat 5 | Step 18 | Step 19 | Step 20 | Beat 6 | Step 22 | Step 23 | Step 24 | Beat 7 | Step 26 | Step 27 | Step 28 | Beat 8 | Step 30 | Step 31 | Step 32 |
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| Kick | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| 808 | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Clap | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Rim shot | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Bass house drop (Jauz, AC Slater, Habstrakt; roots in speed garage and UK bassline): short, dry kick on the quarter notes, clap on 2 and 4, open hat on the offbeat, closed hat in sixteenths with gaps on the downbeat, syncopated rim/perc. The 808 lane here shows the hits of the synth bass (growl, reese, "talking" bass), which never coincide with the kick: they enter on the offbeat and on the sixteenths after 2 and 4, with a pickup at the end of the second bar. Double snare on the last beat as a springboard into the next cycle. Variants: bass that stops for half a bar ("stop") before restarting, bass hits in triplets in the last bar of the phrase, full sixteenth-note hats to raise the tension.