The groove

How to play it

1. 1Play eighth notes at 60: bass on 1, snare on 2, bass on 3, snare on 4, with a quiet ghost on every and. Start painfully slow - clean beats before speed.
2. 2Say it while you play: boom tick crack tick.
3. 3Let your right hand take the bass and snare on the beats and your left the ghosts, or just alternate naturally, whichever stays relaxed.
4. 4Keep the ghosts as whispers and the bass and snare as the sentence. If it falls apart, drop the ghosts, get bass snare bass snare solid, then put them back.
5. 5Record about 90 seconds.

Listen forThe bass and snare beats forming a steady backbeat with the ghosts clearly quieter in between, and the pattern looping without stumbles.

start 60 · pass 85 BPM · take about 90s

Record a take

I start the click at 60 BPM, count one bar, and stop after about 90s. Phone about a metre away, facing the front plate. You get my notes within a minute of sending it.