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How to make "medium-hot spice" drum pattern?
Step 1: Place bass drum on beats 1, 4, 12.
Step 2: Place snare drum on beats 5, 8, 10, 13 (syncopated pattern with backbeat).
Step 3: Place closed hi-hat on beats 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Step 4: Place open hi-hat on beats 15, 16.
Step 5: Place low conga on beats 10, 16.
Step 6: Place mid conga on beats 11, 15.
Step 7: Place high conga on beats 12, 14.
Step 8: Place clave on beats 3, 8, 12, 15, 16.
Step 9: Place maraca on beats 5, 13 (backbeat).
Step 10: Place cowbell on beats 2, 12.
• medium-hot spice
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