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I developed this a few months ago, scribbled it on a 3x5 card, learned to play it and promptly forgot all about it. I happened upon the card yesterday, learned to play the groove again, and it kept me up half the night, cycling through my brain.

Mathematically, this is a beautiful thing: a one-bar kick and snare rhythm played twice, but the second bar is permutated backwards one-sixteenth note in time. The ride pattern is an ostinato, a1e, with an accent on the downbeat.

The groove has a smooth, syncopated feel to it, because the kicks and snares in the second bar all fall on the upbeats — but the rhythm itself is a duplicate of what’s happening on the down- and offbeats in alternating measures. Heh.

    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a   1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RC  Oo oOo oOo oOo o | Oo oOo oOo oOo o |
SD    o O       O o  |  o O       O o   |
KD  O     O O O    O |      O O O    O  |

Patronize these links, man:

• Virtual Drummer loop
• MIDI
• MP3