Funk Drum Pattern

Busy 16th hats with ghost snares between the backbeats: the James Brown school of drumming, built on the "one".

102 BPM8% swingFunk

Steps

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

808 bass & chords

F7 → A#7 → F7 → C7

Chord sound
808
CHD
F7 · then A#7, F7, C7 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.

Export
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How to program it

  1. Tempo 95–115 BPM.
  2. Closed hat on every 16th, accenting the beats.
  3. Snare on 2 and 4 plus ghost notes on steps 8 and 10.
  4. Kick on step 1 (the "one"), then syncopated hits on 4, 7, 11 and 14.

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

Questions

What makes a drum beat funky?

Syncopated kicks, quiet ghost notes on the snare between the backbeats, and a strong downbeat on "the one". Velocity contrast matters as much as note placement.

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