Drum beat
A drum beat, a beat on a drum, is any single strike on a single drum, or a series of beats on various percussion instruments creating a rhythmic or metric pattern. Many drum beats define or are characteristic of specific music genres.
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In Popular Music
In Hardcore punk and Heavy metal music
- blast beat – notably in grindcore, power violence, and black metal
- d-beat – also its own musical genre
- scissor beat
- banana beat
- monkey beat – in the music of F.Y.P.
In Techno and Electronic Music
- break beat
- 4-beat – musical genre
- big beat
- beat juggling