The pattern
165 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 | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Ride | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Crash | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Jungle (London, early 1990s) at 160–180: the heart is the sampled, sped-up and chopped Amen break (The Winstons, "Amen, Brother", 1969). Here is the simplified structure of the first two bars of the break: double kick on 1 and the "and" of 1, snare on 2 with a ghost on the last sixteenth, then a syncopated snare on the "and" of 3 and so on; ride in eighths. The second bar varies the tail (like the original third/fourth bar, with the crash). The sub bass is slow and in half time, often with reggae influences. Variants: chopping and reordering the break slices, 1/32 snare rolls, retuned break pitch.