Afrobeats BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 100–115 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Soundtrap, How to Make Afrobeats (2024): 95–115 BPM
• Elephorm, Cheatsheet de production Afrobeats, Amapiano et Afro house (2026): 100–115 BPM

The groove on this page

Afrobeats is carried by a clave, a three-against-two figure across two bars, here on the rim: three hits in the first bar, two in the second. The kick stays light and leaves room, shakers run in swung 16ths, and the snare or clap is soft. Wikipedia names the 3–2 or 2–3 clave as the common rhythm. It is not Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, which is slower, longer and played by a band.

On this page: the app's Woody kit at 105 BPM, swing 58 %.

Delay and LFO values

A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.

Genres near this tempo

• Pop: 80–104 BPM
• Amapiano: 110–115 BPM
• House: 115–130 BPM
• Deep house: 120–125 BPM

Then make something of it

The door opens Brumm, a club track with a beat and a bass, with this groove's low end in it. The app runs between 90 and 150 BPM, so a faster or slower tempo goes in at half or double. No account, no upload: it travels inside the link. Hum a line over it, and it becomes an instrument.

Nothing is recorded: no microphone, only your taps, counted in the browser. The groove's sounds are the app's own samples, fetched when you tap Play. How the site counts visits.