The pattern
100 BPM · 4/4 · 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kick | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | 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 |
| Crash | hit | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest | rest |
How to play it and where it comes from
Synthwave/retrowave (Kavinsky, The Midnight, Timecop1983) between 80 and 118: 1980s LinnDrum/DMX drums, kick on 1, 3 and the "and" of 3, huge snare with gated reverb on 2 and 4, eighth-note hats. Sequenced bass in eighths or sixteenths on top. Toms with gated reverb as end-of-phrase fills (add tomh/toml in the fill bar). Variants: faster, more aggressive darksynth, outrun with sixteenth-note hats, clap layered over the snare.