The pattern
| 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 | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Rim shot | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | 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
The manouche “pompe” (Quintette du Hot Club de France, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli from 1934; today Rosenberg Trio, Stochelo Rosenberg, Biréli Lagrène): the rhythm guitar acts as the drums. Mapping for drum machine or brushes: kick = the strum on beats 1 and 3, longer and lower, in unison with the double bass (which plays 1 and 3 or walks in quarter notes); snare = the dry, muted strum on 2 and 4, louder (it is the guitar's “backbeat”); chh = the down-strum on all the quarter notes; rim = the small up-strum, almost a ghost, on the last sixteenth before 2 and 4 (many guitarists use it, others do not). Moderate swing (30): at fast tempos of 200–280 the eighths straighten out. In manouche ballads and waltzes (valse musette) the pompe becomes softer. If there is a drummer: brushes only on the snare and hi-hat on 2 and 4, never a full kick.