The pattern
124 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 |
| Clap | 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 | hit | 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 |
| Low tom | 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
Melodic techno (Tale Of Us, Afterlife, Anyma, Stephan Bodzin) at 120–128: a straight, dark techno groove over which emotional arpeggios and pads rest. Kick on the quarter notes with a rolling sixteenth-note bass (sidechain), deep clap with reverb on 2 and 4, sixteenth-note hats, open hat on the offbeat. Rim and low toms add depth without filling. Variants: kick removed for 16–32 bars in the melodic break, clap only on 4, percussion with dotted-eighth delay.