Tempo Genres

[Chrono]

I think most hiphop is usuially like 168 on the tempo

am I right? and do you know what other genres usuially are?

 

[Shwaz]

168 sounds real fast to me. Are you talking beats per minute? I'm thinking it ranges between 85-110. Anything above that would be crazy. House and Trance is around 150-160, more comerical dance is around 140, Jungle is around the upper 160's, and hardcore can get up to 180. Thats a very cursery break down of genres, but its a good representation of the spectrum of speeds

 

[Shonsteez]

Shwaz iz right....168 is like mad fast...lol......I think that might be faster than techno but i aint a techno head?......Shit above 120's fast.

80 - 120. - But Shwaz is on it again....u cant lump a genre into a bpm.

STEEZ

 

[sYgMa]

Math teacher in the house... (lol)

168 bpm divided by 2 = 84.... which would be probably more like it... the thing is you can make a beat at 168, but with all of the instruments separated... (with more space between each hits, I dont know how to say it...)


Well if each bar is in 1/8...

 

[mc_reni]

yea u sed it right sYgMa, i've started makin some of my beats at like 180bpm

 

[MIKELABZ]

I Produce 170... Which Is Really 85 Bpm

 

[Tha1AndOnlyDJT]

If im doing an original track i start out around 90bpm. if im working with samples it all depends on the sample of course.

 

[Equality 7-2521]

my slowest track to date is about 63bpm and my fastest is about 115bpm.

whatevers clever though.

 

[SketchUp]

i usually work at about 90-100 bpm

 

[Formant024]

I've used a 130 bpm but sounds like 90 bpm because the measurement wasn't 4/4th... all relative hehe

 

[Dysphuncktional]

and hardcore can get up to 180.

can get up to?!? it gets beyond that man, listen to some old school terror, in fact, i have a hardcore track online which is above 200 bpm . blazin' hehehe

 

[Formant024]

moby....thousand...old skool classic that goes to .... a 1000bpm of pure 909 terror.

 

[TheSpark...]

I'm sorry but this all sounds like "fuzzy math" if it's hip hop and its at 200 bpm then its some weird setting where it's really mathematicaly 100 BPM... hip hop is average is between 90 to 110... plain and simple

 

[MarkN]

I'm sorry but this all sounds like "fuzzy math" if it's hip hop and its at 200 bpm then its some weird setting where it's really mathematicaly 100 BPM... hip hop is average is between 90 to 110... plain and simple

yea thats right its just sum1 people like to program their tracks at double speed and then they have more room to be creative especially with drums etc you can have double time hats etc much easier !

 

[Greg Savage]

Hiphop is Average 60- 110 bpm

 

[Lex]

I think if you really had to narrow it down, a stereotypical hiphop track is 93bpm...lol, I have actually heards so many tracks at just over 90bpm, but its not really fair to say a genre has a certain range of tempos, expecially in hiphop where a lot of the time it depends on the sample.

I like to vary the tempos I'm working with quite a lot, but I reckon for the most part I'll work at around 70-80bpm which is pretty slow...but really syncopated drum patterns can sound really nice and 'floaty' whereas at higher bpms a more syncopated drum pattern cound sound a little too hectic for anything other than a break, and a lot of the time I aim for atmospheric or subtle/mellow sounding stuff so it wouldn't really work for me.

Alot of old school hiphop is faster than most stuff now, possibly because more artists had breakers and body poppers in mind....I'm not sure to be honest

 

[2_nice]

I've used a 130 bpm but sounds like 90 bpm because the measurement wasn't 4/4th... all relative hehe

3/4 at 120 bpm would sound like 95 bpm 4/4 (approx). me i use usually from 92-97. but i get as slow as mid 80s and get as fast as just over 100. mave gone below 80 and up to about 110 bpm but it is more for an experiment

 

[RigorMortis]

i ussually work in the regions 140 till 220

 

[2_nice]

140 to 220 damn are you making techno or house man ?

 

[SpinDoctor]

140 to 220 damn are you making techno or house man ?

He must be seperating the hits more than you do because if you half them tempos they are 70 to 110, which is around the right tempo for hip hop.