Deep house BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 120–125 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Wikipedia, Deep house: 110–125 BPM
• ModeAudio, Deep House: 5 Production Essentials (2014): 120–126 BPM

The groove on this page

Deep house is house with the drums turned down: a softer kick, the clap almost a rim, chords and a rounded bass doing the moving. The feel lives in the percussion between the beats. Native Instruments' tutorial pushes its shakers about half a 16th late for exactly this lazy swing, and the groove here swings at 60 % with the shaker on the offbeats. It sits a few BPM under house, rarely above 125.

On this page: the app's Soft kit at 122 BPM, swing 60 %, with the Deep synth bass sound.

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

• House: 115–130 BPM
• Tech house: 125–128 BPM
• Techno: 125–135 BPM
• UK garage: about 130 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.