four-to-the-floor
Every beat hits
Four-to-the-floor describes a steady bass drum pattern hitting on every beat of a 4/4 measure—one, two, three, four, repeat.
The rhythm drives house, disco, techno, and other electronic dance music, creating an insistent pulse that keeps bodies moving: The DJ dropped a four-to-the-floor banger and the crowd went wild.
Also written four-on-the-floor.
Residential building
- technoElectronic dance genre
- discoSeventies dance music
- EDMBeat-driven club genre
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
electro · club · rave · DJ · bassline · synthpop · Eurodance · dancefloor
Controlling a vehicle
- hypnoticInducing trance or slumber
- infectiousAble to spread disease
- energeticHaving much vigor
- propulsiveCausing forward movement
unrelenting · steady · locked-in · tight · pumping · pulsating · thumping · insistent
Negatively toned or dispirited
- pulseArterial blood throb
- thumpHeavy dull blow
- 4/4Standard musical meter
- poundingForceful repeated striking
metronomic · relentless · mechanical · pumping · thudding · pulsing · heartbeat · foundation
house
Residential building
trance · electro · club · rave · DJ · bassline · synthpop · Eurodance · dancefloor · nightclub
driving
Controlling a vehicle
- hypnoticInducing trance or slumber
- infectiousAble to spread disease
- energeticHaving much vigor
propulsive · unrelenting · steady · locked-in · tight · pumping · pulsating · thumping · insistent · repetitive
downbeat
Negatively toned or dispirited
pounding · metronomic · relentless · mechanical · pumping · thudding · pulsing · heartbeat · foundation · anchor
four-to-the-floorsyncopated
Rhythmically accent-shifted
off-beat · shuffle · irregular rhythm · rubato · syncopation
four, floor, fours, floors, floored, flooring, fourth, fourths, fourteen