Pick a genre and its groove loads on a two-bar grid — kick, snare, hats, percussion and an 808 tuned to your key — with what makes the genre sound like itself, and where that comes from. Change any step, share the beat as a link, or save it as a 15-second video for Reels, Shorts or TikTok.
The video carries a small “cloudatelier.live” signature in the corner.
1. Pick a genre: its tempo and two-bar groove load, with a note on what defines it. 2. Press Play and click any step to change it. In the 808 row a click cycles through the root (R), the octave (8), the fifth (5) and silence; ~ marks a slide into the note. 3. Choose the key of your track so the 808 sits on its root. 4. Copy the link to share the exact beat — anyone who opens it hears what you made — or save a 15-second vertical video.
Want your own 808 sample in key? Find its note with the 808 Key Finder. Need chords over the beat? Try the Chord Progression Generator.
Every tempo range and every defining trait on this page comes from a published source, listed below; the template's starting tempo always sits inside its range. The patterns themselves are examples written for this page — real tracks vary endlessly — but each one keeps the trait its source describes: the half-time trap snare, drill's snare moving across two bars and its 3+3+2 hi-hats, the offbeat open hat of techno and Afro house, the kick-on-one-and-three of boom bap, amapiano's syncopated log drum and phonk's cowbell.
The drums are recordings: kicks, snares, a clap and hats from drum machines and kits, shaker and claves from the VSCO 2 orchestral sample library. Every one is released under CC0 — public domain — by the person who recorded it, so they are free to use for anything, commercial work included. The electronic genres use an electronic kit, house-based genres a house kick and clap, boom bap an acoustic kit. The 808 bass is synthesised in your browser, as the TR-808 itself did, so that it can be tuned to any key.
Can I use the beats I make here in my own songs?
Yes. The templates are original patterns, the 808 bass is generated in your browser, and the
drums are public-domain (CC0) recordings, listed on this page, that anyone may use for any
purpose, commercial included. What you make is yours.
Why is the trap tempo 140 when it sounds slower?
Trap is often programmed in half-time so the hi-hats can be divided more finely; a typical
trap beat is written at about 140 BPM but felt at 70, with the snare once a bar instead of
twice.
What format is the video?
A 9:16 video of the grid playing with the audio, 15 seconds long, ready for Reels, Shorts or
TikTok. Browsers that can record MP4 save MP4; others save WebM. It is made in your browser
and never uploaded.
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