Breakbeat Drum Pattern

Ghost-y snare pickups and a kick that answers them: the family of drum breaks that built early hip hop and jungle.

100 BPM10% swingBreaks

Steps

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

808 bass & chords

Fm → A#m → Cm → Fm

Chord sound
808
CHD
Fm · then A#m, Cm, Fm 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. Tempo 95–110 BPM (speed it up to 160+ for jungle).
  2. Kick on steps 1, 3, 11 and 14.
  3. Snare on 5 and 13 with pickups on steps 8 and 10.
  4. Straight 8th hats and a little swing (about 10%).

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

Questions

What is a breakbeat?

A breakbeat is a drum break, the section of a funk or soul record where only the drums play, looped or reprogrammed. Breaks like "Amen, Brother" and "Funky Drummer" became the basis of hip hop, jungle and big beat.

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