Band Room

Pop · style reference: Modern pop band groove

#7 most popular104 BPM4/4practice 80–110 BPM level 2ghost notes

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Pop kit

Main4/4 · 16th

Pads

Crash

Hi-hat open

Hi-hat

Clap

Snare

Tom high

Floor tom

Kick

Your pads

131—

142—

153—

164—

9QSnare alt

10W—

11ETom high

12R—

5AFloor tom

6SClap

7DHi-hat alt

8FCrash

1ZKick

2XSnare

3CHi-hat

4VHi-hat open

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Practice notes

Verse is a tight sixteenth-hat groove; the chorus lifts into a disco feel with open hats on every offbeat. Keep the kick on "2-and" soft so it pushes rather than lands.

Playing it on hardware? Set your layout on the Pads page, or see the setup guides for MPC Sample, MPC Live 3, Maschine and M-VAVE SMC-PAD.

The style reference names an influence only; this groove is an original pattern.

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Videos show the style and technique; the pattern on this page is an original arrangement, not a transcription.