Music

A groove that says something: down-beats moved early, fills that announce the change, and eight-bar pieces with a beginning, a middle and an end.

Rock, funk and hip-hop — one skeleton, three vocabularies. The snare stays on 2 and 4 while the kick learns to speak each genre, at each genre's own tempo.

House, breaks and reggae — three skeletons, not one. The hat leaves the beat, the snare leaves the backbeat, and beat 1 learns to be empty on purpose.