Beat player musical instrument

A musical instrument operable to play a multi-component percussive beat comprising a plurality of component parts, each component part being a single percussion instrument of the multi-component percussive beat, the musical instrument comprising:

• a plurality of finger controllers, wherein each finger controller is operable to control one of the component parts of the multi-component percussive beat corresponding to a respective single percussion instrument of the multi-component percussive beat,
• each of the plurality of finger controllers having a touch-sensitive range providing a plurality of actuation regions there along that are actuatable by placing a finger down anywhere along the range to playback a selected hit pattern based on user selection,
• wherein each actuation region corresponds to a different hit pattern from amongst selectable hit patterns for the respective single percussion instrument, and
• each actuation region, while actuated, is operable to play a repeating hit pattern of one or more hits from amongst the selectable hit patterns on the respective single percussion instrument that repeats for each measure of the multi-component percussive beat, and which is associated with a component percussion track representing the respective single percussion instrument of the multi-component percussive beat.