The pattern
145 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 | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | 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 | 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 |
| Ride | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Hard trance groove (Belgium/Germany/the Netherlands 1993–97, then UK and Italy: Jones & Stephenson, Yves Deruyter, Mauro Picotto, Scot Project) between 140 and 150: long, distorted kick on the quarter notes with plenty of reverb or "rumble", bass on the offbeat (808 lane) — sometimes in "rolling" sixteenths (.xxx) —, clap and snare layered on 2 and 4, open hat on the offbeat, sixteenth-note hats and eighth-note ride for drive. Crash on 1 of every 8-bar phrase. The breaks use accelerating snare rolls (quarters → eighths → sixteenths → 1/32) with rising pitch. Variants: double-hit kick on the last beat (x.x.) before the drop, offbeat bass with two notes per beat, ride only in the drop.