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A house rhythm played on a Roland TR-909 drum machine, featuring a four-on-the-floor bass drum plus cymbal, claps, hi-hats and rimshots. In its most typical form, the genre is characterized by repetitive 4/4 rhythms including bass drums, off-beat hi-hats, snare drums, claps, and/or snaps at a tempo of between 120 and 130 beats per minute (bpm); synthesizer riffs; deep basslines; and often, but ...
Deep house is known for tempos typically from 110 to 125 bpm, [1] [6] [7] muted basslines, spacious use of percussion elements (typically using a Roland TR-909 drum machine), [8] soft keyboard sounds (pads), use of advanced chord structures, ambient mixes, and soulful vocals.
It also roots from bounce and Newark's earlier house scene, Jersey club is a staccato, bass-heavy style of dance music featuring breakbeats, rapid tempos around 130–140 bpm, and heavily chopped samples often from hip hop or pop music.
Afro house (also written as Afro-house or Afrohouse) [1] is a sub-genre of house music mainly developed in South Africa. [2] The genre emerged in the 1990s. This musical style fuses elements of traditional house with African rhythms and sounds, incorporating instruments such as the saxophone, piano and synthesizers, as well as vocals in various African languages.
Funky house is a subgenre of house music that uses disco and funk ... Typically produced at around 128 BPM, funky house tracks are characterized by synthesized ...
Tropical house is a derivation of deep house music characterized by its relaxed and island-inspired melodies which give off a "Caribbean, beach-party vibe.” [1] Like deep house, it features synthesized instrumentation and a four-on-the-floor beat at a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, slower than average electronic music.
The late 1990s saw a rise in juke music (also known as juke house or Chicago juke), [6] as a faster variant of ghetto house. [10] Juke songs are generally around 150–165 BPM [7] with kick drums, pounding rapidly (and at times very sparsely) in syncopation with crackling snares, claps, high hats, samples in very short increments and other sounds reminiscent of old drum machines.
Big room house or simply big room is a fusion subgenre of house music (notably progressive house and electro house) that gained popularity in the early 2010s.Although the term "big room" started appearing in news articles circa 2007, the current state of this subgenre emerged around 2010—12 and was popularized by songs such as "Epic" and "Cannonball".