Drum Patterns
Free drum patterns and beat loops for many music genres
Drum Patterns is a free online library of drum machine patterns and beat loops covering genres such as Breakbeat, Electro, Electro Funk, Electro Pop, Hip Hop, House, Miami Bass, Pop, R&B, Reggae, Rock, Techno and more. Users can browse patterns by genre, tempo and drumkit, search, and sort by recent, popular, liked or discussed, or open a random pattern. Each pattern page shows a step-by-step description of how to build the pattern, a visual step grid, playback with a BPM value, and counts for likes, listens and comments. The site also includes a Create page for building patterns, user registration and login, comments, and a changelog. It was started to restore and archive roughly 400 patterns from a now-defunct website, 808.pixll.de, and launched on March 23, 2025 with 8,637 patterns and 1,59,982 beats.
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