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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.
Latin dance music is built around a cowbell, congas and a bass line that often skips the downbeat. Cha-cha-chá came out of Havana in the early 1950s with its famous "cha-cha" on beat 4; salsa grew in New York in the 1960s and '70s from Cuban son, locked to the two-bar clave.
Further afield, cumbia began on Colombia's Caribbean coast and spread across the Americas with its shuffling guacharaca; bolero is the slow romantic dance of Cuba and Mexico; and merengue, from the Dominican Republic, is driven by the tambora and the güira's steady scrape. These beats play on the Latin percussion kit: congas, cowbell, bongo and maracas.
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.