The pattern
120 BPM · 4/4 · 32 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 | 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 | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | hit |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Ride | 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 |
How to play it and where it comes from
Djent (Meshuggah, Periphery, Animals as Leaders): the snare and cymbals stay fixed in 4/4 (half-time snare on 3, ride/china on the quarter notes), while the kick and guitars repeat a motif of odd length (here 5 sixteenths: "x.x..") that slides against the bar and "realigns" after several cycles. The motif here restarts every 5 steps; the last piece ("xx") closes the two bars. Very compressed 7–8-string guitar sound. Variants: motifs of 7 or 9 sixteenths, "normal" 4/4 sections for contrast, snare ghost notes.