The pattern
150 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 | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| 808 | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest |
| Clap | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit |
| Open hi-hat | 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
Current hard techno (from about 2021: Charlotte de Witte, Sara Landry, the rave scene) between 145 and 160: distorted kick on the quarter notes and "rumble" (808 lane: the reverberated, saturated kick tail, chopped into the sixteenths between hits). Open hat on the offbeat, sixteenth-note hats, clap on 2 and 4. Influences from hardstyle, schranz and gabber. Variants: "cycling" kick with rising pitch, breakdown with a lone distorted kick, 1/32 rolls before the drop.