House BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 115–130 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Wikipedia, House music: 115–130 BPM
• iZotope, Using Different Tempos To Make Beats For Different Genres (2021): 115–130 BPM

The groove on this page

House is four on the floor with a clap on two and four and an open hat on every offbeat, the pattern that Chicago drum machines made a genre. What makes it house rather than techno is the shuffle: the 16ths between the beats arrive a little late, so the hats skip. The groove here is the Brumm app's own starter loop, swing 56 %, the shuffle the app's hums were fitted to.

On this page: the app's Starter kit at 124 BPM, swing 56 %.

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

• Deep house: 120–125 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.