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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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For the popular Tamil film, see Rhythm (film) Rhythm (Greek = flow, or in Modern Greek, style) is the variation of the accentuation of sounds or other events over time. ... See also the beat disambiguation page. ... Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Several American Indian-style drums for sale at the National Museum of the American Indian. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... For the popular Tamil film, see Rhythm (film) Rhythm (Greek = flow, or in Modern Greek, style) is the variation of the accentuation of sounds or other events over time. ... Metre or meter (US) is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western music notation by a symbol called a time signature. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...

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 music a back beat (or the off-beat) is any of the even beats as opposed to the odd downbeats, ie pulses which are weak on their respective metric levels. ... Four on the floor may refer to one of the following. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... A kind of trap used in trapping. ...

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" -- also its own musical genre
• scissor beat
• banana beat

Blast beats are the torrents of alternating snare and bass drums which increase the speed, density, and percussiveness of death metal, black metal and grindcore. ... Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of hardcore punk, most commonly associated with death metal and crust punk. ... Power violence is a cross breeding of musical genres hardcore punk and grindcore that was first mentioned by name in the song Hispanic Small Man Power (H.S.M.P.) by genre pioneer Man is the Bastard. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that evolved out of thrash metal during the early 1980s. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... D-beat is a drum beat, specifically a fast rock beat unique to hardcore punk, especially in its UK and European variants. ...

In Techno and Electronic Music

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

A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop_time being a break from the main parts of the song. ... 4-beat (also known as hardcore or happy hardcore) is a breakbeat style of music circa 1993, that evolved from breakbeat hardcore emanating from the United Kingdom rave scene. ... Big beat (sometimes called chemical breaks) is a term devised in the mid 1990s by the British music press as a way of describing the work of The Chemical Brothers, but was defined by the work of Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy. ... Beat juggling is the act of manipulating two or more identical samples (e. ...

In Jazz

• swing beat
• bossa nova
• samba

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music created by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto and first introduced in Brazil by Gilbertos recording of Chega de Saudade, in 1958, a song written by Antônio Carlos Jobim, first released as a single, and shortly thereafter as... Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. ...

See also

• drum
• beat
• drum machine
• rhythm
• time signature
• drummer

Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Several American Indian-style drums for sale at the National Museum of the American Indian. ... See also the beat disambiguation page. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... For the popular Tamil film, see Rhythm (film) Rhythm (Greek = flow, or in Modern Greek, style) is the variation of the accentuation of sounds or other events over time. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A drummer at practice A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ...

External links

• Drummers Unlimited - Famous drummers, photos and biographies.
• Drumming Styles - Drum Notation for Various Genres