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Basic Transport Controls

play the pattern stop stop and clear everything set the tempo to 128 bpm change tempo to 85 and play clear the pattern

Swing & Shuffle Controls

set swing to 25%set swing to 40%turn swing off give me a dilla swing add more shuffle to the hats

Genre-Specific

create a house beat make a techno pattern at 130 bpm create a hiphop beat give me a trap pattern make a dnb pattern at 174 bpm create a disco groove build a breakbeat pattern make a boom-bap beat create a dubstep pattern at 140 give me a garage beat

Fundamental Rhythmic Concepts

four-on-the-floor kick snares on beats 2 and 4 put kicks on every beat add a backbeat off-beat hats 8th note hi hats 16th note hi hats quarter note kicks across both bars half note snares

️ Instrument-Specific Additions

add closed hats every 8th put an open hat on the last step of bar 2 add rim clicks on the upbeats place kicks on steps 0, 4, 8, and 12 add claps with the snare put a tom fill in bar 2 add ride cymbal every quarter note throw in some random tom hits

Pattern Transformations

reverse everything invert everything reverse just the kick invert the hats shift the pattern 2 steps right shift kicks 4 steps left double the kick pattern

Copy & Modify Operations

copy the hat pattern to the ride use the kick rhythm for the snare duplicate bar 1 to bar 2 mirror the hat_closed pattern to hat_open

Randomization

create a random pattern randomize the hats give me a random kick pattern create a random hi hat pattern randomize everything at 70% density

Triplet Grid & Mixed Subdivisions

switch to triplet grid toms as triplets on steps 10, 11, 12 create a triplet-based kick pattern add triplet hats at the end of bar 2 make a triplet shuffle feel add a triplet flourish to the hats but keep the hi-hats on 16ths sixteenth groove with a triplet tom fill

Bar-Specific Operations

add a fill in bar 2 only clear bar 1 put a tom roll in bar 2 add variation to bar 2 make bar 2 different simple pattern in bar 1, complex in bar 2

Complex Combinations

four-on-the-floor kick, off-beat hats, snares on 2 and 4 house beat with a tom fill at the end hiphop groove with open hat pickups add syncopated kicks and steady hats layered percussion with kick, snare, and three types of hats groove with ghost notes on the rim

Musical Embellishments

add a pickup into bar 2 put a crash on beat 1 of each bar add ghost notes on the snare syncopated kick pattern add offbeat percussion throw in some swing add anticipation before the snare

️ Modification Requests

remove all kicks remove the snare from bar 2 clear just the hats take out steps 4, 8, 12 from the kick remove every other hat simplify the pattern make it sparser make it busier

️ Every Nth Patterns

kick every 4 steps hats every 2 steps snare every 8 steps place rim every 3 steps starting from step 1 every other step on closed hats

Style-Based Requests

apply house style give it a dilla swing make it feel like uk garage add a samba feel latin percussion pattern

Edge Cases & Ambiguous Requests

make it groove add some funk spice it up make it interesting build tension add movement less is more go crazy minimal techno vibes maximum chaos

Sequential Operations

create a house beat, then reverse it start with a simple kick and hat pattern, then add snares on 2 and 4, then play clear everything, make a hiphop beat at 95 bpm, and play it four on the floor, now invert it random pattern, then clean it up with just kicks and snares

Specific Step Placements

kick on steps 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 snare only on step 8 hats on all odd steps place toms on steps 14, 15, 16 clap on every downbeat

Dynamics & Feel (Testing Interpretation)

laid back groove driving beat choppy rhythm smooth and steady aggressive pattern mellow beat energetic

Fills & Transitions

add a drum fill before bar 2 tom roll into the downbeat build up at the end drop out in bar 2 snare roll leading into bar 2

Genre + Tempo Combinations

slow hiphop at 70 bpm fast jungle beat at 180 mid-tempo house at 122 downtempo electronica at 90 hard techno at 145

Practical Use Cases

simple click track for practice metronome with accents on 1 basic 4/4 pattern just kick and snare, no hats percussion only, no kick or snare minimal pattern for layering

Creative/Unusual Requests

polyrhythmic kick and snare euclidean rhythm on the kick golden ratio pattern 5 over 4 feel asymmetric groove palindrome pattern call and response between kick and snare