page_title: Drum beat
hierarchical_section_title: Drum beat
caption_attribution_description: English: Created in Sibelius by User:Hyacinth from common knowledge. See: File:Characteristic rock drum pattern.mid Also characteristic funk drum pattern but with ride cymbal.&#91;1&#93; The "basic [rock] beat" may be notated using half notes on the bass drum and a quarter note ride cymbal pattern while "four to the floor"&#91;2&#93; features steady quarter notes on the bass drum.&#91;2&#93;. The first of the examples of, "commonly used rock beats", given features, "an eighth-note ride pattern," as the pattern notated above but riding the hi-hat.&#91;3&#93; "Basic" beats include four to the floor with quarter note hi-hat ride, described as appropriate for "hard rock", with eighth-note ride pattern appropriate for a "pop song", with swung eighths on the backbeat of the ride pattern for a "jazz feel", and second notated pattern above, descried as "basic 4/4 'beat'...[with] a sixteenth-note feel," with hi-hat ride.&#91;4&#93; Groove #1: "bass drum on beats 1 and 3 and snare drum on beats 2 and 4 of the measure...add eighth notes on the hi-hat".&#91;5&#93; "Straight blues/Rock groove" "Blues may also be played with a straight feel....The tempo of straight Blues grooves covers a large range of quarter note = 80-160 bpm."&#91;6&#93; ↑ Bolton, Ross (2001). Funk Guitar: The Essential Guide, p.5. ISBN 0634011685. ↑ a b Schroedl, Scott (2001). Play Drums Today!, p.15. Hal Leonard. ISBN 0-634-02185-0. ↑ Morton, James (1990). You Can Teach Yourself Drums, p.32. Mel Bay. ISBN 1-56222-033-0. ↑ Mattingly, Rick (2006). All About Drums, p.42. Hal Leonard. ISBN 1-4234-0818-7. ↑ Peckman, Jonathan (2007). Picture Yourself Drumming, p.50. ISBN 1598633309. ↑ Berry, Mick and Gianni, Jason (2003). The Drummer's Bible, p.36. ISBN 1884365329.
context_page_description: A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments. As such a "beat" consists of multiple drum strokes occurring over multiple musical beats while the term "drum beat" may also refer to a single drum stroke which may occupy more or less time than the current pulse. Many drum beats define or are characteristic of specific music genres.
  Many basic drum beats establish the pulse through alternating bass and snare drums strokes while establishing the subdivision on the ride cymbal or hi-hat:
  This establishes a quarter note pulse in duple time: each measure is formed from two quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into two eighth notes.
  This establishes a quarter note pulse in triple time: each measure is formed from three quarter note pulses, each divided into two eighth notes.
  This establishes a dotted-quarter note pulse in duple time: each measure is formed from two dotted-quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into three eighth notes.
  Compound triple meter is equivalent to simple duple meter with triplets on every beat.
context_section_description: A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments. As such a "beat" consists of multiple drum strokes occurring over multiple musical beats while the term "drum beat" may also refer to a single drum stroke which may occupy more or less time than the current pulse. Many drum beats define or are characteristic of specific music genres.
  Many basic drum beats establish the pulse through alternating bass (on the on-beats) and snare drums (on the off-beats) strokes while establishing the subdivision on the ride cymbal (thus its name) or hi-hat:
  This establishes a quarter note pulse in (quad)duple time: each measure is formed from (two groups of) two quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into two eighth notes.
  This establishes a quarter note pulse in triple time: each measure is formed from three quarter note pulses, each divided into two eighth notes.
  This establishes a dotted-quarter note pulse in duple time: each measure is formed from two dotted-quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into three eighth notes.
  Compound triple meter is equivalent to simple duple meter with triplets on every beat.
  This establishes a dotted-quarter note pulse in triple time: each measure is formed from three dotted-quarter note pulses, each pulse divided into three eighth notes.
  A "fill" is played in between the regular strokes of a pattern and/or signals the end of a phrase:
  Since a phrase is multiple measures long, a fill signaling the end of one would come at the end of the last in a series of repeated measures.
  In double and half-time patterns the pulse and ride are either doubled or halved, respectively, occurring twice or half as often:
  A blast beat drum pattern features all drums on the eighth note subdivision or variants with one or more drum's pattern displaced by a sixteenth note:
  This resembles a combination of double-time (bass-snare pattern) and original time (ride pattern).
  Despite the difference in notation, there is no difference in interonset intervals and this pattern is nearly identical to the first simple duple pattern except for the second onbeat being divided into two eighth notes and the second backbeat being delayed an eighth note.
  The heavy metal gallop, named for a horse's canter, is based on a bass drum pattern of one eighth followed by two sixteenths.
caption: Simple quadruple drum pattern, "Straight blues/Rock groove":[2] divides each of two beats into two About this soundPlay (help·info) or About this soundPlay with rimshots (help·info)
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