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UK garage BPM
What tempo is UK garage? About 130 BPM, as Wikipedia and Native Instruments both put it, with a swung 2-step groove, a tap counter and the delay and LFO values.
Mika skips the second kick. He learned that from garage, not from laziness.Play the groove at this tempo, or tap the pad along with a track to check its tempo against the range.
132 BPM
UK garage: about 130 BPM
How fast, and who says so
Both sources settle on about 130 BPM:
- Wikipedia, UK garage: around 130 BPM
- Native Instruments, How to make UK garage music (2023): around 130 BPM
The groove on this page
UK garage at its most recognisable is 2-step: the kicks on two and four of a house bar are taken out, leaving a kick on the one and another an 8th after beat three, so the groove skips. The snare or clap stays on two and four, the hats shuffle hard, and the bass answers the kick. MusicRadar's tutorial sets the swing between 50 and 60 % on 16ths; the groove here swings at 60.
On this page: the app's Shimmer kit at 132 BPM, swing 60 %, with the Garage 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.
| Note | Straight | Dotted | Triplet | LFO Hz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 (a bar) | 1,818.2 | 2,727.3 | 1,212.1 | 0.55 |
| 1/2 | 909.1 | 1,363.6 | 606.1 | 1.10 |
| 1/4 (a beat) | 454.5 | 681.8 | 303.0 | 2.20 |
| 1/8 | 227.3 | 340.9 | 151.5 | 4.40 |
| 1/16 | 113.6 | 170.5 | 75.8 | 8.80 |
| 1/32 | 56.8 | 85.2 | 37.9 | 17.60 |
Genres near this tempo
- House: 115–130 BPM
- Deep house: 120–125 BPM
- Tech house: 125–128 BPM
- Techno: 125–135 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.
Audio: tones your browser makes on this page; no microphone. Nothing about the audio reaches the visit count.