Trance BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 130–150 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Wikipedia, Trance music: 120–150 BPM
• Native Instruments, What is trance music? (2023): 130–150 BPM

The groove on this page

Trance runs on a four-on-the-floor kick with the bass on the offbeat: one short note between every pair of kicks, so kick and bass alternate and the low end never stops. Above it the 16th hats are straight, without swing, and the long breakdowns drop the kick entirely before it comes back. Today's tracks mostly sit around 138 to 140; the sources' range reaches 150 for the harder styles.

On this page: the app's Bright kit at 138 BPM, straight 16ths, with the Rubber band 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

• Techno: 125–135 BPM
• Dubstep: 135–142 BPM
• Breakbeat: 110–175 BPM
• Psytrance: 138–148 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.