Disco is a genre of dance music that was most popular in the mid-late 1970s. It had subgenres like Italo disco, Eurodisco, and Space disco. Eurodisco was more pop-oriented and less soul-influenced than American disco. Well-known performers of late 1970s disco included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, Van McCoy, and the Village People. Disco songs typically have a steady four-on-the-floor beat with a hi-hat pattern and heavy, syncopated bass line.

2. What is Disco?
Disco is a genre of dance music.
Mainstream popularity High in the mid
-late 1970s.

3. Subgenres
• Italo disco
• Eurodisco
• Space disco
• Disco polo
• Nu-Disco

4. Euro disco
Euro disco was not as funky, more pop oriented
, and less soul influenced than American styled dis
co
Typical instruments Electric guitar - Bass guitar - P
iano - Keyboard - Drums - Synthesizer

5. Well-known late 1970s disco
performers
• Donna Summer
• The Bee Gees
• KC and the Sunshine Band
• Van McCoy
• The Village People
• The Jackson 5

6. The Jackson 5

7. The Jackson 5 were an American popular
music family group from Gary, Indiana.
They played from a repertoire of R&B, soul,
pop and (in the 1970s) disco.

8. Disco rhythm
Most disco songs have a steady four-on-th
e-floor beat, a quaver or semi-quaver hi-hat
pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat
, and a heavy, syncopated bass line

9. Characteristic disco bass rhythm

10. Characteristic rock and disco
drum patterns