Hardstyle BPM

How fast, and who says so

Both sources settle on about 150 BPM:

• Native Instruments, How to make a hardstyle track (2024): 150–160 BPM
• eMastered, How to Make Hardstyle Music (2024): 145–150 BPM

The groove on this page

Hardstyle is a kick genre: the kick is distorted until it has a pitch and a tail, and that kick is the lead as much as anything on top. It plays on every beat, with a bass on the offbeats between, the reverse bass of the earlier style. Native Instruments gives 150 to 160 and eMastered 145 to 150, so 150 is where they meet; Wikipedia says the first years ran at 140 to 150.

On this page: the app's Deep kit at 150 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

• Trance: 130–150 BPM
• Breakbeat: 110–175 BPM
• Psytrance: 138–148 BPM
• Trap: 130–176 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.