135 BPM - Reggaeton Drum Loop

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Reggaeton is a genre that has become very popular in recent years, and this is not to be underestimated since it has earned a place on dance floors practically all over the world. In this article we will see how to create a base for Dembow, the rhythm of reggaeton. While many use loops, we will learn how to compose our base from scratch so that we can use it in any program or even play it acoustically.



This is useful both if you want to make your own reggaeton songs, and to enrich your musical level with new rhythms and forms as well as for those musicians looking to create different arrangements or explore new musical ideas.



Understanding Reggaeton
The first thing we have to understand is that reggaeton is an urban genre, and has many similarities with rap. Many rappers even migrated to reggaeton. The big difference is that, in principle, rap has poetic aspirations, while reggaeton seeks to make people dance. In this search, reggaeton can combine and add different musical elements that are for this purpose, elements of electronic music, pop or even Caribbean.

This is not a minor detail and it is very important, because the idea or purpose of this genre is to make people dance, to make them unconsciously start moving and for this we must order all our musical and textual elements, starting with the rhythm.

Instrumentation How is the rhythmic pattern of reggaeton? What instruments are used?

In principle there were four styles of reggaeton (Raggamuffin, Marroneo, Perreo and Dembow) but the genre was homogenized. That's why the rhythm that characterizes reggaeton is the Dem Bow. Nowadays, many of the reggaeton bases use already composed loops so if we don't have ideas of music we can find libraries with dembow rhythms to work with.

Now the idea is to start creating your own bases and go further and be able to create your own original reggaeton rhythm. And why not? Your own style. But to do that we need to know the rhythm, something we'll see a little bit later.
For the composition of the songs of the genre in particular, it is usually composed with the program Fruti Loop (FL Studio) which favors that many of the sounds are similar among the different songs of the genre which produces a familiarity. In this aspect it is often said that reggaeton is digital music par excellence, although of course it can be played acoustically.

However, many musicians use other programs besides FL Studio, such as Ableton or Reason, or better yet, decide to play with acoustic instruments for fun as well as for live or more intimate acoustic performances. So the main thing is to understand the rhythm pattern of reggaeton.