Drum beat

A drum beat, a beat on a drum, is any single strike on a single drum, drum machine, or a series of beats on various percussion instruments creating a rhythmic or metric pattern. Many drum beats define or are characteristic of specific music genres.

In Popular music

• back beat
• Four-on-the-floor, which has dominated "dance" music since the 1960s
• Drive, popularized by soul music, involves the snare falling on every beat of a 4/4 bar.

In Hardcore punk and Heavy metal music

• blast beat - notably in grindcore, power violence, death metal and black metal
• skank beat
• d-beat - otherwise known as the "fast beat" ^{[verification needed]} -- also its own musical genre
• scissor beat
• banana beat

In Electronic and Dance music

• break beat
• 4-beat - musical genre
• big beat
• beat juggling

In Jazz

• swing beat
• bossa nova
• samba

See also

• drum
• beat
• drum machine
• rhythm
• time signature
• drummer
• drumbeat (literary)

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