Drumlab DRUM PATTERNS

Experiment 5

Common drum machine grooves, ready to write in. The idea is from Pocket Operations by Shittyrecording.studio, a book of patterns for pocket machines. These patterns are our own.

Sounds 1 to 4 are the top row of the pads: a kick, a snare, a hat and a bell, tom or cowbell. Every pattern here uses only them. Write one with REC: pick the sound with PRESETS, then press the steps.

Four on the floor

Kick on every beat, hat in between. House, techno, disco.

124 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 5 9 13 · sound 3: 3 7 11 15

Backbeat

Snare on 2 and 4. Rock, pop, most things.

accents 5 13 · 110 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 9 11 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

Boom bap

A lazy kick behind the snare. Old hip hop.

accents 5 13 · 90 bpm, swing 4
sound 1: 1 8 11 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

Offbeat hats

Kick, snare, and the hat on the offbeats.

accents 5 13 · 126 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 5 9 13 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 3 7 11 15 · sound 4: 16

Electro

A kick that skips around, snare on 2 and 4.

accents 5 13 · 128 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 4 9 12 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 3 7 11 15 · sound 4: 8 16

Hat roll

Sparse kick and snare, then the hat speeds up at the end.

accents 9 · 140 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 11 · sound 2: 9 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 14 15 16

Breakbeat

A kick that doesn't wait for the beat.

accents 5 13 · 100 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 4 7 11 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 · sound 4: 16

Half-time

The snare moves to beat 3, so everything feels twice as slow.

accents 9 · 140 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 8 12 · sound 2: 9 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

Two-step

Kick on 1 and the 'and' of 3, snare on 2 and 4, shuffled. Garage.

accents 5 13 · 132 bpm, swing 6
sound 1: 1 11 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

One drop

Nothing on beat 1. Kick and snare together on 3. Reggae.

accents 9 · 76 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 9 · sound 2: 9 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

Trap

Half-time, with the hat rolling at the end of the bar.

accents 9 · 140 bpm, swing 0
sound 1: 1 7 12 · sound 2: 9 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 16 · sound 4: 15

Shuffle

Swing all the way up and the same plain groove turns into a skip.

accents 5 13 · 96 bpm, swing 10
sound 1: 1 9 · sound 2: 5 13 · sound 3: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

♫Lessons on the device

The menu has these grooves as lessons. Hit GLO + HOME, turn SELECT to LESSONS and hit OCT+ for the list, with a tick on the lessons you finished. Pick one with SELECT and hit OCT+.
l-row
Rings show where the hits go. Press the steps to fill them.
l-half
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