How to make a house beat on your phone, four on the floor

A house beat built from scratch in PadLoop at 124 BPM. Track 1 gets four on the floor, the kick on every beat and the clap on 2 and 4, then open hats on the offbeat and a shaker; chord stabs go on track 2 and the bassline on track 3. In the LOOP tab the drums and then the bass drop out in time for a break, the drop brings everything back, and a held filter, echo and note repeat rolls finish it off.

In the free version you get 2 looper tracks: the third track and the performance recording come with full PadLoop, and the 7-day trial unlocks everything.

Step-by-step guideHouse & Techno →Four on the floor, Ready beats at 122 and 128 BPM, and club-ready banks.

Transcript

1. 0:00 Make a house beat from scratch
2. 0:02 Pick track 1 and tap REC: a one-bar count-in starts
3. 0:05 Track 1: four on the floor, kick on every beat and clap on 2 and 4
4. 0:08 The loop starts again by itself: listen before adding more
5. 0:12 REC again on track 1: open hats on the offbeat and a shaker
6. 0:16 Track 2: chord stabs
7. 0:21 Track 3: the bassline
8. 0:25 All the layers, in time. Now arrange it.
9. 0:28 LOOP tab: mute the drums in time for a break
10. 0:33 …then the bass: the tension builds
11. 0:37 Drop: everything comes back in
12. 0:40 Hold an effect while it plays: filter down, then echo
13. 0:48 Note repeat on the hi-hat: rolls in time
14. 0:52 The performance recording is ready to share or export

Last updated: 21 October 2026