Beginning Drum Programming: How to Mix It Up With the Snare Drum

of 1820 possible unique combinations/patterns

You get the picture? Each time we add a snare hit to our patterns we can create even more patterns.

For sixteen snare hits added one at a time there are 59536 unique patterns.

Final words

There were other things I wanted to cover in this part, but space considerations mean that I will have to leave them until later. They will appear in the part on Fills, as they are more appropriate there anyway.

That’s it for this overview. Next time, Shift the Kick