The pattern
140 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 | rest | 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 | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Snare | 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 |
| Rim shot | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| High tom | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | hit |
| Low tom | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | 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 |
| Shaker | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit | hit |
How to play it and where it comes from
Samba carioca, felt in 2/4 (here one 4/4 bar = two bars of 2/4, quarter note = about 140 for samba-enredo). Surdo de primeira (marcação, kick lane) on 2 of every 2/4: the loudest, lowest hit, the heart of samba. Surdo de segunda (resposta, toml) answers on 1. Surdo de terceira (corte, tomh) cuts across with syncopations and free fills. Caixa (snare) in sixteenths with accents, ganzá/chocalho (shaker) in continuous sixteenths. Tamborim (rim): one common version of the teleco-teco over two 2/4 bars; samba schools use different figures and the carreteiro in sixteenths. Variants: pandeiro in place of the caixa in pagode, agogô, repinique calls.