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groove · reversed

11 s · 90 bpm · the same beat, played back to front

groove · reversed 11 s · 90 bpm · the same beat, played back to front
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The same groove flipped end to end. Every hit mirrors at once — the snare slides off the backbeat and the kick that opened the bar lands at the very end. The exact move you would use to play a melody backward, pointed at a drum beat instead.

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One move, on the whole beat

This is the groove as written, reversed.

The beat is a grid — one row per drum, one column per sixteenth — so reversing it in time turns every row back to front at the same instant:

as written   kick  x . . . . . . x . . x . . . . .
             snare . . . . x . . . . . . . x . . .
reversed     kick  . . . . . x . . x . . . . . . x
             snare . . . x . . . . . . . x . . . .

Flip the grid and the snare leaves the backbeat — it now answers on the offbeats — while the kick that opened the bar lands at the very end. Same three drums, same number of hits, nothing rebuilt; only their order in time moved.

It’s the exact move you’d use to play a melody back to front. The difference is the material: the “notes” being reversed are the hits of a drum beat, so what flips is the groove.