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Four-on-the-floor
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Four on the floor (music).
Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm used primarily in dance genres such as disco and electronic dance music. It is a steady, uniformly accented beat in
4 time in which the bass drum is hit on every beat (1, 2, 3, 4).
This was popularized in the disco music of the 1970s
and the term four-on-the-floor was widely used in that era, since on a drum set, the beat is played with the pedal-operated, drum-kit bass drum.