The pattern
110 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step · swing 10%
| 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 | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Fusion (Weather Report, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, Steve Gadd, Dave Weckl, Vinnie Colaiuta) between 90 and 130: sixteenths on the hi-hat with openings on the offbeats, a highly syncopated kick in dialogue with the electric bass, snare on 2 and 4 with ghost notes and displaced accents. A funk groove with a jazz vocabulary: polyrhythms, odd meters, long tom fills (add tomh/toml in the fill bars). Variants: linear drumming (no two limbs play together), sections in 7/8, adapted songo.