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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.
Calypso came from Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1900s, a storytelling song style riding a lilting, syncopated kick. In the 1970s it sped up into soca ("the soul of calypso"), the driving four-on-the-floor sound of Carnival.
Zouk is from Guadeloupe and Martinique, a 1980s dance music with a skipping 3-3-2 kick, and kompa (konpa) is Haiti's national dance music, smooth and mid-tempo, built on a steady cymbal and a rolling kick. Reggae and ska, from Jamaica, have their own page.
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.