Big backbeat

Free

Ghost notes & accents

A soft cross-stick bar, then a loud snare and clap bar.

The pattern

Bar 1

Closed hat

Rim

Clap

Kick

Crash

Snare

Bar 2

Closed hat

Rim

Clap

Kick

Crash

Snare

Bright cells are accents, dim ones are ghost notes. Each row is a pad; each column is a 16th note.

What you'll play

A soft cross-stick bar, then a loud snare and clap bar. Bar 1 is the quiet bar: cross-stick on 2 and 4. Bar 2 is the loud bar: crash on 1, then snare and clap together on 2 and 4, both accented.

Hear it first

Verse, then chorus. The backbeat jumps up in bar 2.

Play it clean

Right index plays the rim and the snare. Left middle adds the clap in bar 2. Pass with 85% as the tempo goes 74 → 80 BPM.