beat help for a non-drummer

[jeff robertson]

What would the drum beat of this song look like written on paper?

http://www.cba.ua.edu/~matt2/flvxx/Flvx ... i%20do.mp3

I want to program a beat sort-of but not exactly like that, but I can't figure it out in terms of eight notes, sixteenth notes, triplets, etc.

[deshead]

I make it to be a 2-bar pattern at 241 BPM, and there's only a snare and bass drum.

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[jeff robertson]

I make it to be a 2-bar pattern at 241 BPM, and there's only a snare and bass drum.

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That seems pretty close.. the parts where the bass hits on the "and" was what was throwing me. Expect to hear something like that on my entry for "get a life" if I can get around to recording it.

I've recently come to the realization that I've been ignoring the fact all my life that decent drum beats are more than just bass-snare-bass-snare with no syncopation.

Every song where I *like* the drums, is either some kind of variant of the above, or some distant relative of the Bo Diddley, or triplet-based in some way. Four on the floor is for disco. I wanna rock.

[jeff robertson]

I make it to be a 2-bar pattern at 241 BPM, and there's only a snare and bass drum.

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Mindbomb! When I punch that bass line into Hammerhead *without* the snare... it sounds vaguely "Latin". There must be a degree of Latin influence on rock/pop drumming that I've never known about before.