The pattern
126 BPM · 4/4 · 16 step · swing 20%
| 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 | rest | rest | rest | hit | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Snare | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
| Closed hi-hat | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest |
| Open hi-hat | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Tambourine | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
The boogaloo groove of soul jazz and the “commercial” hard bop of the 1960s (Lee Morgan's “The Sidewinder” 1963 with Billy Higgins, Lou Donaldson's “Alligator Bogaloo” 1967 with Leo Morris/Idris Muhammad, the organ trios of Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff). Straight or barely swung (20) eighths on the hi-hat, snare (often cross-stick) on 2 and 4, syncopated kick that converses with the organ's left-hand line or the bass: 1, the “a” of 2, 3, the “and” of 4. The feel sits between shuffle and funk: it is the link between hard bop and funk. Variants: 12/8 shuffle for slow organ blues, full backbeat with tambourine on the heads, swing in 4 for the solos.