Easy
Begin with the twelve the whole floor can name from the first piano lift.
A build, a bpm, a synth swell — name the electronic guessable songs before the drop lands.
What they are
Electronic music runs on tension and release. A tenth of a second at the quiet end of the track still tells you plenty: the tempo (128 says house, 140 says dubstep, 174 says drum and bass), the texture of the bass, the shape of the build. Name it before the drop does.
The 677-track pool spans house, techno, big-room and everything between, so a kick pattern alone rarely settles it. You have to read the whole texture — the pads, the sidechain pump, the supersaw.
It's a Heardle-style song guessing game where the giveaways are pads, builds and the shape of a drop.
Turn the dial
The dial drops you past the festival anthems into the set-deep records only the genre faithful can place.
Begin with the twelve the whole floor can name from the first piano lift.
Move up and twenty-five singalongs join, the ones that headlined a summer and then quietly left the rotation.
Fifty now, where texture alone has to name the subgenre — house, trance or hardstyle.
Expert keeps only the first filter sweep; the kick never gets to land.
No build, no drop, no warning — a tenth of a second of a pad and the fifty wait.
Game highlights
Electronic tracks give away their subgenre in the first beat — that's what makes the 677-track pool fast but unforgiving. For a change of scenery, the song guesser is every genre under one roof.
Train the ear
A rave stab, a piano lift or a saw bass are different rooms entirely. The first patch names the subgenre faster than any note.
The length and shape of the build is a period detail — a slow piano rise and a hard riser are years apart even at the same BPM.
A full diva hook means one school, a chopped-and-stuttered vocal another. The treatment of the voice is the tell.
How to play
Lock onto the texture: the synth, the bass and the tempo do the naming. Reveal more only when the drop won't arrive fast enough.
Questions about this quiz
The texture — a synth swell, a four-on-the-floor kick or the tempo. The subgenre usually announces itself before the melody of a guessable song does.
677 tracks across house, techno and big-room. The pool stays inside the genre and rotates every round.
Yes, like every page on Song Guesser — it runs in the browser with nothing to install or sign up for.
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