Picture a 16‑beat loop that feels normal at first: snare on 2 and 4, a steady hi‑hat ticking in eighths. Then, on beat 3, the hi‑hat jumps to sixteenths, and a kick lands every fifth beat. The gaps—those little rests that pop up after each kick—are the secret. When you line them up, the pattern of silence spells out a simple word. It’s a rhythm that thinks in prime numbers and hides a message in the silence between the hits.