House drum patterns.

1. 1970s

   1. 1978
      

      You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

      Sylvester

      Root: synth-laced disco over a steady four-on-the-floor kick; the club pulse that Chicago house later stripped to machines

2. 1980s

   1. 1982
      

      Don't Make Me Wait

      NYC Peech Boys

      Larry Levan's Paradise Garage production: sparse, dubbed-out rhythm and gospel piano; a root of garage house
   2. 1984
      

      Landmark

      On and On

      Jesse Saunders

      Bare TR-808 track recorded in 1983; frequently cited as the first house record released on vinyl
   3. 1985
      

      Time to Jack

      Chip E.

      Raw drum-machine jack track from the Jack Trax EP; Chip E. says it was the first record to use 'jack' for dancing
   4. 1986
      

      Landmark

      Move Your Body

      Marshall Jefferson

      Driving Chicago drum track under the first prominent house piano; its groove and chords were imitated for decades
   5. 1986
      

      Jack Your Body

      Steve "Silk" Hurley

      Bare, stuttering drum-machine jack with a chopped bassline; topped the UK chart for two weeks in January 1987
   6. 1986
      

      Landmark

      Can You Feel It

      Mr. Fingers

      Larry Heard's unhurried drum-machine groove under lush chords; one of the first deep house records
   7. 1987
      

      Landmark

      Acid Tracks

      Phuture

      Squelching TB-303 line over a long, hypnotic drum-machine loop; the record that defined acid house
   8. 1987
      

      Your Love

      Frankie Knuckles

      Knuckles' Trax version of Jamie Principle's song: arpeggio and bass over steady machine drums; a Warehouse-era anthem
   9. 1988
      

      Can You Party

      Royal House

      Todd Terry's sample-chopped drums blending disco, Chicago house and hip-hop; a UK hit in the 1988 acid house summer
   10. 1989
       

       French Kiss

       Lil Louis

       Single-note groove that slows to a full stop and speeds back up; a house hit built on a drastic tempo change

3. 1990s

   1. 1991
      

      The Ha Dance

      Masters at Work

      Beat built around a sampled 'ha' stab; it became the rhythm of ballroom and vogue dancing
   2. 1992
      

      Percolator

      Cajmere

      Minimal percussion-and-bassline tool on Cajual; a bare, bouncing Chicago groove still used as a DJ tool
   3. 1995
      

      Da Funk

      Daft Punk

      Distorted, compressed drum-machine shuffle under a squelching lead; a 1990s house classic that broke Daft Punk
   4. 1998
      

      Landmark

      Music Sounds Better with You

      Stardust

      TR-909 beat under a filtered Chaka Khan guitar loop; the filter-house blueprint of the French touch era

4. 2000s

   1. 2001
      

      La La Land

      Green Velvet

      Stark, driving tech house drum programming under a deadpan vocal; Green Velvet's Relief Records club anthem

5. 2010s

   1. 2013
      

      Feelin

      DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Taso

      Footwork near 160 BPM: skipping, syncopated kicks under chopped vocals; opens Double Cup, ghetto house's fast descendant
   2. 2013
      

      When a Fire Starts to Burn

      Disclosure

      Clap-heavy UK house groove under a looped sermon sample; part of Disclosure's 2010s house revival
   3. 2018
      

      Losing It

      Fisher

      Rolling tech house kick and percussion with a long build; topped the US Dance Club Songs chart

6. 2020s

   1. 2021
      

      Marea (We've Lost Dancing)

      Fred again.. & The Blessed Madonna

      Straight four-on-the-floor kick under chopped vocals; a lockdown-era house hit and Fred again..'s crossover

Press play to loop each record's busiest two bars. Patterns are machine-detected from the recordings, not verified transcriptions.