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Unit 1 · New pattern · 10 of 12 · about 4 minFree

Sixteenth-note hats

Build a hat four times per beat: busy and driving, and easy to mistake for eighths.

0 of 4 steps done
  1. Meet it

    Done

    A hat four times per beat, busy and driving. You hear it in funk, R&B and techno; James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” is built on it. Hear it on its own first, then in a track.

    100bpm
    1 bar on repeat
    Hats

    Play, then hear both.

  2. Build it

    Done

    Fill every box on the hat row: sixteen a bar, four per beat.

    100bpm
    1 bar on repeat
    Kickalready there
    Snarealready there
    Hatsyour turn

    0 of 16 in place.

  3. Pick it out

    Done

    Three takes you haven’t heard, at a new tempo. One of them has the pattern. Play each, then choose.

    1. Which one has the sixteenth-note hats?

    Play each, then choose.

  4. Into your crate

    Done

    Built and heard. The card goes into your crate, and your project at the end of the unit can use it. It earns its first hole punched now, for building it; hearing it in new tracks and using it in your own earn the other two.

    rhythm Sixteenth-note hats

    A hat four times per beat, busy and driving

Next: First beat

Your project: a beat for a run, for focus or for a late walk, started from your cards and made your own.

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