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Quarter-note bell pulse, offbeat hi-hat played with the foot, ghost notes. It’s straight time but it grooves pretty well, and the accent on the a of 3 breaks it up a bit. This sample contains 4 bars of the groove, with two separate fills (2nd and 4th measures). I particularly like the slow triplet-feel break at the end, even though it’s not really a triplet at all.

This groove works well if you can ride your HH foot on the 1/8th notes, open on the offbeats and close on the downbeats (or vice-versa). The transcript below doesn’t show this; it simply shows the HH closing on the offbeats, played with the foot.

     1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RC   O   O   O   O   
SD    o  O  o o O o o
KD   o  o o  o     oo
HH     x   x   x   x

Patronize these links, man:

• Virtual Drummer loop
• MIDI
• MP3