The pattern
| Instrument | Beat 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Beat 2 | Step 5 | Step 6 | Beat 3 | Step 8 | Step 9 | Beat 4 | Step 11 | Step 12 | Beat 5 | Step 14 | Step 15 | Beat 6 | Step 17 | Step 18 | Beat 7 | Step 20 | Step 21 | Beat 8 | Step 23 | Step 24 |
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| Kick | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit |
| Crash | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Boogie-woogie (Pinetop Smith, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson; "eight to the bar" drumming in the style of Gene Krupa and in jump blues). Triplet grid in 12/8 (3 steps = one quarter note, BPM referring to the quarter note). The engine is the pianist's left hand: eight swung eighths per bar (hence "eight to the bar") on octave figures or fifth-sixth-seventh figures. The drums double it: light kick on the quarter notes (feathering), snare on 2 and 4, hi-hat or brushes on the first and third triplet of each beat, crash at the start of the 12-bar chorus. Tempos 120–200 (Ammons and Johnson often 160–190). Variants: snare playing all the swung eighths in the shout sections, a straight version (even eighths) in the rock and roll of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, kick on 1 and 3 in jump blues.