Pattern
On the one
A huge beat one, then kicks and quiet snare taps scattered where you do not expect them. Those quiet taps are called ghost notes.
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Funk workout
by The house band · 6 items · every one follows your project's key
Everything is a drum, even the guitar. Land hard on beat one, then play with where everything else falls.
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What is inside
Press play on any of them. They loop until you stop them.
Pattern
Horn hits
The whole horn section stabbing the same chord together, then getting out of the way.
Recipe
Ghost notes
A loud backbeat with soft taps around it. The taps are barely there, and the groove falls apart without them.
Recipe
Chicken scratch
Sixteen tiny notes a bar with most of them left out. It is a rhythm part that happens to have pitches.
Now change it.
Drop any of these into a project and every step, note and sound is yours to move. That is how you find out why it works.