The pattern
100 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step
| 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 | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| 808 | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Clap | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Crunk (Memphis and Atlanta, 1990s–2000s: Three 6 Mafia, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz) between about 75 and 105 ("Get Low" is measured at 101 BPM by SongBPM, Usher's "Yeah!" at 105). Stripped-down, repeated TR-808/909 drums: kick on 1 and the "and" of 1 (a double hit) and the same on 3, full, layered clap with snare on 2 and 4, eighth-note hi-hats with an open one on the last offbeat (in "Yeah!" the hats enter only in the choruses). The long 808 doubles the main hits. The energy comes from the shouted call-and-response chants and the synth stabs, not from groove complexity. Variants: snaps (fingers) instead of the clap in "snap music", triplet hats in 2004–2006 tracks, total stops on the shouted phrases.