The pattern
108 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step · swing 50%
| 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 | rest | hit | rest | 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 | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Tambourine | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Teddy Riley's groove (Bobby Brown, Guy, Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time"): TR-808/SP-1200 with very marked swing on the sixteenths (50, almost a triplet). Huge, dry snare and clap on 2 and 4, syncopated, "hopping" kick reminiscent of go-go and hip hop. The swung sixteenth-note hi-hats are the engine; tambourine on the offbeat. Variants: triplet snare rolls before the chorus, orchestra-hit stabs, kick doubling the slap bass.