Drum beat
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] In Hardcore punk and Heavy metal music
- blast beat - notably in grindcore, power violence, and black metal
- skank beat
- d-beat - otherwise known as the "fast beat" -- also its own musical genre
- scissor beat
- banana beat
[edit] In Techno and Electronic Music
- break beat
- 4-beat - musical genre
- big beat
- beat juggling
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Drummers Unlimited - Famous drummers, photos and biographies.
- Drumming Styles - Drum Notation for Various Genres
