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I have been getting into an older Counting Crows CD lately named August and everything after. One of the songs that I really like is called Anna Begins. I got into the lyrics but also thought that the drum pattern sounded really cool. I sat down to learn the pattern and, as it turns out, it is based on the old classic rock beat with the backbeat on 2 and 4 and the bass on 1 and 3:
The only difference is that the backbeat on 2 is shifted back by one 16th to the ‘a’ of 1 as such;  This changes everything and sounded very cool and is just another reminder of how very simple changes can make the entire beat sound so much different. It also turned out that this is a common pattern used in many rock songs and just becomes another tool in the toolbox.
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