The pattern
| 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 |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Clap | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| High tom | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | hit |
| Shaker | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit |
How to play it and where it comes from
Moombahton (Dave Nada, Washington, D.C., 2009): born by slowing a Dutch house track from 128 to 108 BPM; the typical range is 100–115. Four-on-the-floor kick (a house legacy) under the reggaeton dembow: snare on the 4th and 7th sixteenth of each half bar (sixteenths 4, 7, 12, 15), the classic "boom-ch-boom-chick". The clap on 2 and 4 is optional and gives the club backbeat; many productions leave it out and let the dembow snare do all the work. Closed or open hats on the offbeat, shaker in sixteenths with gaps on the downbeat eighth so the kick can breathe. Typical fills: toms or timbales in sixteenths on the last two steps, snare rolls in triplets before the drop, half-bar stops with vocals only. Moombahcore variant: same BPM but a half-time snare on 3 and wobble basses.