126 BPM
Drums
Bass
4/4
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.
Brazil's rhythms come from the meeting of West African drumming, Portuguese song and Indigenous music. Samba grew up in Rio de Janeiro's neighborhoods in the early 1900s and became the sound of Carnival: a deep surdo answering on beat 2, a shaker or tamborim running sixteenths, and syncopated rim patterns like the partido alto on top.
Bossa nova took samba's feel and made it quiet and close in late-1950s Rio — a cross-stick clave over a soft, dotted kick. From Brazil's northeast, baião has a lopsided kick that drives forró dancing, and samba-reggae, born in Salvador in the 1980s, fuses Bahian drum corps with reggae.
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.