Here are two different Blue Note/soul/boogaloo-type grooves on the tune Cantaloupe Woman, from albums by Grant Green.
First, from the great session drummer Ben Dixon (who also wrote the tune), as played on the 1965 Blue Note album His Majesty King Funk:
Then on the 1971 album Visions, played by Idris Muhammad (or possibly Harold Caldwell— I think it’s IM, though):
In both examples the bass drum notes in parentheses are optional— those notes are played maybe 50% of the time. The snare drum hits are played at roughly an even volume, with the buzzed note in the second example maybe a little lighter. None of them are loud.
Audio after the break:
I can’t find the HMKF version on YouTube, but here’s the same groove, certainly played by Dixon, on a Verve 45. It’s a little slower than the Blue Note version:
The Visions version:
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