Footwork BPM

How fast, and who says so

Both sources settle on about 160 BPM:

• Wikipedia, Footwork (genre): 150–165 BPM
• Red Bull, Chicago, dance, and the roots of footwork (2020): around 160 BPM

The groove on this page

Footwork comes from Chicago's dance battles and runs at 160: kicks grouped in threes against the beat, three 16ths apart, so the bar feels like 3 + 3 + 2 rather than four, with a sparse clap and a sub bass on the kicks. Wikipedia says tracks switch between full-time and half-time sections, so a dancer can count it at 160 or at 80. Juke, its sibling, uses the same tempo.

On this page: the app's Dry kit at 160 BPM, straight 16ths, with the Sub 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

• Psytrance: 138–148 BPM
• Hardstyle: about 150 BPM
• Trap: 130–176 BPM
• Drum and bass: 160–180 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.