Disco · medium · 118 BPM
Disco Beat
Classic disco drumming: a four-on-the-floor kick, backbeat snare on 2 and 4, and the signature open hi-hat barked on every off-beat against busy sixteenth-note ticks. That open-and-closed hat chick is the heartbeat of the entire genre.
Press play to hear it, then open the full machine to edit, loop, and play along with your own kit.
What this teaches
Teaches the alternating closed/open hi-hat foot-and-hand coordination that defines disco.
Heard in
- Chic - Le Freak
- The Trammps - Disco Inferno
- Earth, Wind & Fire - September