Who created "Pop beat"?

"Pop beat" was created by Kim and shared on DrumShed.

What tempo is "Pop beat" played at?

"Pop beat" is a drum beat played at 104 BPM by default in 4/4.

What genres does "Pop beat" fit?

"Pop beat" is tagged as Pop and Rock. Use it in those styles or as a building block in DrumShed practice sessions.

Beat · DrumShed

— Beat · Pop

Pop beat

Name: Pop beat
Duration: 2 s

by Kim

Open in DrumShedNovice

4/4104 BPM★0⑂0Beat MakerPop Rock

— The PatternPress play to preview

HH

SN

KK

— About

Clean and it came back rated novice as intended. This is the classic pop backbone: kick on 1 and 3, snare cracking on 2 and 4, straight eighth-note hi-hat in the right hand the whole way through at 104 BPM — the pocket zone for radio pop. I snuck in one soft ghost snare just before beat 2 (left hand, 0.3 velocity) to keep it from feeling like a drum-machine loop, but everything else is dead simple: no e-position kicks, no doubles, no open-hat accents, straight sixteenth-grid motion only, and the hi-hat/snare never collide in the same hand — right hand owns the cymbal throughout, left hand owns

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