120 BPM
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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.
Tango grew in the late 1800s in the port neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Its roots include the Cuban habanera — a dotted, lilting bass rhythm — and the candombe drums of Afro-Uruguayans.
The marcato tango beat leans on all four beats with a drag into the next bar; milonga is tango's faster, playful cousin in a 3+3+2 feel; and candombe, from Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan communities, is played by drum lines of three sizes over a clave-like pattern on the drum's shell.
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.