EDM means electronic music that’s made for dance-based environments.

Four-on-the-floor beat is a drum pattern used in many forms of dance. It uses the kick drum, the snare drum and the hi-hat (open and closed).

A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that creates sound by manipulating existing sounds.

Sampling means to take a section of a sound recording and putting it into another piece of music.

A sequencer or DAW is a device or software that can record, play back or edit a piece of music.

Sub-bass music hit the low 80-20Hz frequency pitches and have very low notes.

Wobble-bass is an extended bass note that is manipulated rhythmically by using a low-frequency oscillator to manipulate certain things such as volume, distortion or filter cutoff.

Disco music is not electronic dance music because you can see a live band play disco and the vocals are never electronic.

Retriggering is replaying a sample for a set number of times

Breakbeat is a repeated sample of a syncopated drumbeat.