Four-on-the-floor disco kick fused with syncopated funk - busy sixteenth hi-hats with open accents, a sharp backbeat snare on 2 and 4, and ghosted kick syncopations between the downbeats that lock into a deep, danceable pocket.
Disco Funk Pocket sits a four-on-the-floor kick under continuous sixteenth-note hi-hats, opening the hi-hat on the '&' of 2 and the '&' of 4. Extra kick strokes on the 'a' of 1 and the 'a' of 3 push into the following beat, adding a funk syncopation on top of the steady disco pulse.
Each column is one sixteenth note. x is a hi-hat or cymbal stroke, o is a drum, and o on the hi-hat row is an open hi-hat.
1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a Hi-Hat x x x x x x o x x x x x x x o x Snare . . . . o . . . . . . . o . . . Kick o . . o o . . . o . . o o . . .
Count the bar out loud as 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a and add one limb at a time.
The 'a' kicks land a sixteenth before the snare backbeat, so foot and hand fire in quick succession. Practise just 'a-2' and 'a-4' as a two-note figure before playing the whole bar.
Start slow enough to place every note deliberately, lock each rung in before moving up, and only raise the tempo once the pattern is clean. Each step opens the metronome at that tempo.
Cited for the disco-funk feel — four-on-the-floor with syncopated sixteenth-note motion — rather than as a note-for-note transcription.
Ordered by difficulty — the first is the smallest step up.
When you count sixteenth notes as '1 e & a', the 'a' is the fourth and last subdivision — the sixteenth note immediately before the next beat.
Treat closing the hi-hat as a note in its own right. The foot closes on the sixteenth after the open stroke, which cuts the sound exactly where the pattern needs it to stop.
No. It combines sixteenth-note hi-hats, open-hat control and syncopated kick placement. Learn the basic disco groove first, then this.