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Making a basic Samba rhythm in a tracker

If you're using a tracker or a step sequencer, you need to make your patterns have 17 rows (ticks) per beat. This shows a full pattern that contains 4 bars. The idea is that all instruments in your song must follow this rhythm.In other words, only put notes or drums on the positions used in track 1 or 2, and never on the rows that contain only "---" on both tracks.

Hex	Dec	Track 1	Track 2
00	00	A-4	A-4
01	01	---	---
02	02	---	---
03	03	---	---
04	04	---	B-4
05	05	---	---
06	06	---	---
07	07	---	---
08	08	---	C-4
09	09	---	---
0A	10	---	---
0B	11	---	---
0C	12	---	D-4
0D	13	---	---
0E	14	---	---
0F	15	---	---
10	16	---	---
11	17	A-4	A-4
12	18	---	---
13	19	---	---
14	20	---	---
15	21	---	B-4
16	22	---	---
17	23	---	---
18	24	---	---
19	25	---	C-4
1A	26	---	---
1B	27	---	---
1C	28	---	---
1D	29	---	D-4
1E	30	---	---
1F	31	---	---
20	32	---	---
21	33	---	---
22	34	A-4	A-4
23	35	---	---
24	36	---	---
25	37	---	---
26	38	---	B-4
27	39	---	---
28	40	---	---
29	41	---	---
2A	42	---	C-4
2B	43	---	---
2C	44	---	---
2D	45	---	---
2E	46	---	D-4
2F	47	---	---
30	48	---	---
31	49	---	---
32	50	---	---
33	51	A-4	A-4
34	52	---	---
35	53	---	---
36	54	---	---
37	55	---	B-4
38	56	---	---
39	57	---	---
3A	58	---	---
3B	59	---	C-4
3C	60	---	---
3D	61	---	---
3E	62	---	---
3F	63	---	D-4
40	64	---	---
41	65	---	---
42	66	---	---
43	67	---	---

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