How a UK garage beat is built
The kick
The snare on two and four
Hats and the open hat
Then a variation: Shuffled hats
Kick on step 1 and step 7, the and of two, and nowhere else. Snare on steps 5 and 13. Set the swing to about 62 before you add the hats, because the hats are where you hear it: a pattern like steps 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14 and 15, with holes where a straight eighth pattern would have hits, so the gaps and the swing make the skip. An open hat on step 15 lifts into the next bar. The shuffled variation moves the hats to sixteenths with gaps and adds a rim on step 12 and a shaker on the offbeats; the 4x4 version puts the kick back on every beat under the same hats and clap, which is where speed garage lives.
More drum patterns
- Trap
- Boom bap
- House
- Techno
- Drum and bass
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- Jersey club
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- Drill
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- Hip hop
- Amen break
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- R&B and soul
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- Samba
- Afrobeats
- Reggae
- Disco
- Punk
- Metal
- Breakbeat
- Dubstep
- EDM, trance and hardstyle
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- Country
- Blues and shuffle
- Latin
- 6/8 and 12/8
- All drum patterns
- Program your own: the drum sequencer
