Trap BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 130–176 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Wikipedia, Trap music: 100–176 BPM
• Native Instruments, How to make a trap beat (2022): 130–200 BPM

The groove on this page

Trap is written fast and felt slow: the clap or snare hits once a bar on beat three, so a beat at 140 moves like 70, and the speed goes into the hi-hats, which run in 8ths and break into 16ths, triplets and 32nd rolls. Under it a long 808 plays the bass line and doubles as the kick. Wikipedia gives a typical trap beat around 140; this groove plays at 144 with its rolls written in 32nds.

On this page: the app's Dry kit at 144 BPM, straight 16ths, with the Driven 808 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

• Breakbeat: 110–175 BPM
• Psytrance: 138–148 BPM
• Hardstyle: about 150 BPM
• Footwork: about 160 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.