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    Hi:

    I was wondering what the most common bass drum beats are? I know it depends on what you are playing, but in general in common time what would be the four most used patterns?

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    These are the patterns I play the most just in basic rock beats 4/4 8ths.

    1. Bass on each upbeat
    2. Bass on each downbeat
    3. Bass on all beats except 2/4 (so 6 kicks in each measure)
    4. Bass on 1st up and down, Bass on 3rd up.

    Hopefully that makes sense because I couldn't really figure out a good way of explainging it without showing you the actual music scores :P

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    I think the 4/4 beat is pretty widely used.

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