Boom Bap Drum Pattern

Swung eighth hats, a hard snare on 2 and 4 and a kick that skips around them. 1990s New York in one bar.

90 BPM22% swingHip hop

Steps

Warm, filtered, knocking drums for lo-fi and boom bap

808 bass & chords

Gm7 → C7 → Fmaj7 → Dm7

Chord sound
808
CHD
Gm7 · then C7, Fmaj7, Dm7 on later loops

The 808 follows the chord root in each bar; set a step's offset to walk the bassline. Pads hold until the next chord hit. Stabs are short.

Click a step once for a hit, twice for an accent, three times to clear. Space plays/stops, T taps tempo, R makes a random beat.

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How to program it

  1. Snare hard on beats 2 and 4 (steps 5 and 13): the "bap".
  2. Kick on step 1, then around the snare: steps 8 and 11 are common.
  3. 8th-note hats with an extra 16th at the end of the bar.
  4. Swing the 16ths by about 20–30% for the classic MPC head-nod.

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Step chart · one bar of 16th notes, numbers mark the beats

Questions

What is boom bap?

Boom bap is a hip hop production style named after the sound of its kick ("boom") and snare ("bap"). It defined East Coast hip hop in the late 1980s and 1990s, built on sampled breaks, hard snares and swung drums.

What BPM is boom bap?

Usually 85–95 BPM, sometimes as slow as 80 or as fast as 100.

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