Stage 5Two Bars
A groove with a beginning and an end. Bar 2 answers bar 1, a cymbal marks the top of the phrase, and the last two beats hand it back — all of it on the same grid Stage 2 finished on.
Question and answerbar two replies
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Two bars of rock beat, and the second one adds a single kick on beat 4.
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Bar 2 puts the snare on 2, 3 and 4 instead of 2 and 4.
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A crash opens bar 1; bar 2 answers with the extra kick and the extra snares together.
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Four barsa phrase you can hear the end of
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Four identical bars of groove with a single crash on the down-beat of the first.
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Four bars that get busier: quarter hats, 8th hats, kick on every beat, then the snare answer.
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Three bars of groove, then a bar with nothing in it but its down-beat.
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The turnaroundthe way back to bar one
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Three bars of groove, then the last two beats of bar 4 given to the snare in 8ths.
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Both ends marked: a crash opens the phrase and an open hat on the last 8th hands it back.
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Four bars with everything Foundations has: crash, hats, ride, a turnaround and an open hat.
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Checkpointa bar of each — switching between patterns is what makes them stick
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The stage as one four-bar phrase: the crash on top, the answer, the ride, and the turnaround back to the start.
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