Soul & Motown drum beats to play online

Soul and Motown drumming drives with the snare on every beat, a bouncing kick and tambourine-like hi-hats. The feel is joyful and slightly pushed.

The style in numbers (from our 8 grooves)

Tempo range

60–144 BPM

Typical tempo

116 BPM

Most common groove

Motown beat (6/8)

Grooves with ghost notes

0%

Shuffle or triplet feel

25%

Time signatures

4/4, 12/8

Learn The median soul & motown tempo here is 116 BPM, against 118 BPM across all 150 songs. Compare tempos by genre →

Soul & Motown songs

• ▶ Rehab Amy Winehouse · 144 BPM
• ▶ Isn't She Lovely Stevie Wonder · 119 BPM
• ▶ My Girl The Temptations · 104 BPM
• ▶ I Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye · 116 BPM
• ▶ Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell · 130 BPM
• ▶ Respect Aretha Franklin · 115 BPM
• ▶ Valerie Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse · 106 BPM
• ▶ At Last Etta James · 60 BPM

Typical soul & motown drum patterns

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