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Drag rhythmic values into up to 4 beat blocks per line to build a drum groove, or click a tile then click a block to place it — handy on a trackpad.
Balkan dance music is famous for meters that group short and long beats: rachenitsa is 7/8 counted 2+2+3, lesnoto 7/8 counted 3+2+2. Dancers feel the long beat as a lift, and the drum (tapan) marks each group with a heavy stroke. Played here with each beat as an eighth note, so the tempo is the eighth-note pulse.
Čoček is the Romani brass-band dance of Serbia and North Macedonia; the bulgar is the Klezmer (Eastern European Jewish) dance beat with a 3+3+2 snare; and the polka, from Bohemia in the 1830s, is a quick two-beat oom-pah that spread through Central Europe and the Americas.
Want to play along, or build a song from these? Open them in Drum Loops → Each beat becomes a loop you can edit, with fills, a count-in and a song.