And now I’ve spoiled the secret of the Beastie Boys’ funky beat.
"Take a single bar of music and divide it into 16 notes. Put a kick drum on the first, seventh, and eleventh notes—and a snare hit on the fifth and thirteenth—and you have yourself a funky beat…
Additionally, this is how drum machines are programmed. The programmer selects which individual sixteenth-note will be turned “on” (i.e., triggering the sound), thereby creating said funky beat.
In this particular example, the Beasties do, indeed, have their “kicks” on the one (beat one of the bar), seven (the “and” of beat two), and eleven (the “and” of beat three) and their “snares on the five and thirteen” (beats two and four, respectively)."
In Chrome and FF, logged in or not, I see the two posts above flickering like crazy. Unless I put my mouse over one of the spoilt gifs, both of them just keep flickering in and out. I also don’t see the horizontal rule between @anon29631895’s two posts, and his second avatar image is flickering in and out.
A screenshot showing a half-flickered image and no second avatar or h-rule: