The pattern
122 BPM · 4/4 · 32 step · swing 25%
| 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 | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Rim shot | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit | hit | rest | hit | hit |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Broken beat (or “bruk”) from the West London scene of the late 1990s–2000s (IG Culture, Bugz in the Attic, Dego and Mark Mac of 4hero, Phil Asher, Kaidi Tatham) and European nu jazz (St Germain, Jazzanova, The Cinematic Orchestra). Two bars: the kick avoids the regular quarter notes and moves to syncopated sixteenths, the snare sits on 2 and 4 but with “broken” hits around it (the second sixteenth of 2, the “a” of 4) and ghosts on the rim; swung sixteenth-note hi-hat (25) MPC style. Tempos 110–130 (some St Germain productions at 120–125 are almost house). Variants: house version in four (St Germain's “Rose Rouge”), sampled jazz breakbeat at 90–100, half-time downtempo in the style of Cinematic Orchestra.