The "Be My Baby" beat — Hal Blaine's intro to the Ronettes' 1963 hit, one of the most copied drum patterns in pop (the Beach Boys, the Jesus and Mary Chain and countless indie records borrowed it). Boom … ba-boom CRACK: kick on 1, the and-of-2 and 3, then a single big snare on 4.
How it sits: kick and snare together spell the habanera — dotted quarter, eighth, quarter, quarter. There is no snare on 2, so the bar leans hard toward the one accent on 4. A shaker (tambourine stand-in) keeps eighths on top; the piano pounds quarter-note chords Wall-of-Sound style and the bass follows the kick.
Listen for the gap after beat 1 — the and-of-2 kick is a pickup into 3, not a beat of its own — and how the lone snare sounds bigger because it is the only one.
Practice: say "boom … ba-boom CRACK" out loud with a metronome on quarters before playing it; then mute the shaker and keep the space.