Funk drum beats to play online

Funk lives in the 16th notes: busy hi-hats, syncopated kicks and ghost notes on the snare. These grooves train control and dynamics more than speed.

The style in numbers (from our 8 grooves)

Tempo range

90–115 BPM

Typical tempo

100 BPM

Most common groove

16th-note funk groove (5/8)

Grooves with ghost notes

100%

Shuffle or triplet feel

100%

Time signatures

4/4

Learn The median funk tempo here is 100 BPM, against 118 BPM across all 150 songs. Compare tempos by genre →

Funk songs

• ▶ Chameleon Herbie Hancock · 96 BPM
• ▶ Brick House Commodores · 107 BPM
• ▶ Funky Drummer James Brown · 100 BPM
• ▶ Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine James Brown · 108 BPM
• ▶ Superstition Stevie Wonder · 100 BPM
• ▶ Cissy Strut The Meters · 90 BPM
• ▶ Give It Away Red Hot Chili Peppers · 91 BPM
• ▶ Uptown Funk Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars · 115 BPM

Typical funk drum patterns

The grooves most songs in this genre are built on. Learn these and the rest are small variations.