English: Characteristic rock and funk (Bolton, Ross (2001). Funk Guitar: The Essential Guide , p.5. ISBN 0-634-01168-5 .) drum pattern followed by disco drum pattern.

Schroedl, Scott (2001). Play Drums Today! , p.15. Hal Leonard. ISBN 0-634-02185-0 . notates the "basic [rock] beat" using half notes on the bass drum and a quarter note ride cymbal pattern while "four to the floor" (p.15) features steady quarter notes on the bass drum.

Morton, James (1990). You Can Teach Yourself Drums , p.32. Mel Bay. ISBN 1-56222-033-0 . gives as the first, "commmonly used rock beats," featuring, "an eighth-note ride pattern," as the above pattern but riding the hi-hat , not the ride cymbal. Rock groups such as U2 and INXS have used the second beat, notated with one hand for the hi-hat/snare pattern and one for the bass (p.55).

"Basic" beats in Mattingly, Rick (2006). All About Drums , p.42. Hal Leonard. ISBN 1-4234-0818-7 . include four to the floor with quarter note hi-hat ride, described as appropriate for "hard rock", with eighth-note ride pattern appropriate for a "pop song", with swung eighths on the backbeat of the ride pattern for a "jazz feel", and second notated pattern above, descried as "basic 4/4 'beat'...[with] a sixteenth-note feel" with hi-hat ride.

Marshall, Wayne (2006). "Giving Up Hip-hop's Firstborn

A Quest for the Real after the Death of Sampling", Callaloo 29.3: 868-892. ISSN 0161-2492. "The funk-derived breaks that have long served as hip-hop's rhythmic bedrock" are also characterized by, "their common features [which] tend to include a kick drum on the downbeats...snares on the off beats...and a hi-hat dividing each measure at the level of the eighth or sixteenth note. Finally, a tempo of anywhere between 80 and 110 beats per minute will evoke the recognizable feel of a hip-hop beat."