The pattern
138 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 | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | 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 | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest | rest | rest | hit | rest |
| Ride | 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
Trance (Germany/the Netherlands, 1990s: Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto) at 130–145, uplifting around 138: kick on the quarter notes with offbeat bass (or rolling sixteenth-note bass), clap on 2 and 4, open hat on the offbeat, sixteenth-note hats, ride in the drop, crash on 1 of every 8-bar phrase. Long kickless breaks with pads and arpeggios, then a build with an accelerating snare roll (quarters → eighths → sixteenths → 1/32). Variants: "gallop" kick in psy-trance, clap with gated reverb.