patterns
- phuture · acid territory✎125 bpm · chicago acid house · Phuture · 1987
chicago 4×4 909 floor under a moog acid-bass riff in A minor. tape on for warmth, delay off — keep the 303 dry like the original.
- parliament · flash light bass✎110 bpm · p-funk · Parliament · 1977
moog-only bass pattern walking root-5-b7-root in Bb minor — bernie worrell's expressive monosynth phrasing. add drive to taste.
- detroit · model 500 territory✎130 bpm · detroit techno · Model 500 / Juan Atkins · 1985
909 4×4 at 130 with a moog string-stab figure walking i-VI-III-VII in C minor. juan atkins / model 500 / underground resistance dna. plate on for the warehouse.
- dub · lee scratch territory✎76 bpm · jamaican dub / roots reggae · Lee Scratch Perry · 1976
76bpm. sparse 909 (kick 1, snare 3) + sustained moog sub on 1 of each bar. delay carries the song — that's the whole lesson. delay + plate on by default. drive optional for that ratty bbd character.
- trap · 808 sub + half-time✎140 bpm · atlanta trap · Lex Luger / Metro Boomin era · 2011
half-time pocket at 140 (feels like 70). kick on 1+3, snare on 3 only, hi-hat 16ths with a triplet roll. moog 808-sub slides root → 5. tape on for cohesion. this is the atlanta template.
- Linn LM-1 · when doves cry✎109 bpm · minneapolis funk / pop · Prince · 1984
Prince 1984 template — Linn LM-1 drums alone at 109bpm. Kick on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4, single hi-hat on every 8th, NOTHING ELSE. The original record famously had NO BASS — just drums + synth. The lesson is what you leave OUT. Plate on for the warehouse room sound; never delay (Prince records were dry, not dub).
- 707 · voodoo ray acid house✎122 bpm · uk acid house · A Guy Called Gerald · 1988
A Guy Called Gerald 1988 UK acid house template — TR-707 4-on-the-floor at 122bpm + Moog acid bass in A minor. Brighter pop-machine kick + cowbell ping on every offbeat + claps on 2/4. Tape on for warmth, plate on for the rave room.
- grandmother · dub jam✎78 bpm · kingston dub · King Tubby / Lee Scratch Perry territory · 1975
78bpm dub pocket with the moog grandmother on sub-bass duty. 909 kick on 1 + snare on 3, hat lift on the and-of-4. delay + plate on so the snare blooms into the next bar. swap moog→hookesub via the override panel to hear nick's actual analog grandmother on the bass.
- grandmother · 16th arp✎112 bpm · italo / proto-house · Giorgio Moroder / Donna Summer / mid-80s synth-pop · 1979
112bpm 16th-note arpeggio in A minor over a 909 four-on-the-floor. The arp walks A → C → E → G → A → E → G → C across the bar. tape on for cohesion. swap moog→hookeclav or hookelead via the override panel to hear the actual grandmother play it.
multisamples
canonical lessons
- canonical lesson · p-funkParliament · Flash Light · 1977110 bpm · intermediate
every note swept by the envelope. percussive. the bass IS the lead.
- canonical lesson · electro / early hip-hopAfrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force · Planet Rock · 1982116 bpm · intermediate
syncopated. kick on 1+3 with offbeat ghost kicks adding motion. cowbell on every 16th offbeat (the iconic 808 cowbell). clap on 2/4. drum pattern is the song.
- canonical lesson · berlin school / kosmischeKlaus Schulze · Berlin School Kosmische · 1975100 bpm · advanced
patient. 100bpm sequencer. NEVER speeds up, NEVER changes the pattern. just runs. on top: slow chord pad, slow filter modulation, sparse melodic interjections. the FORM is the trance — long-form repetition that builds without changing.