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The drum beat in Я не ходил на каратэ

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 28-43 and 54, and 4 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
25/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 160 BPM
Я НЕ ХОДИЛ НА КАРАТЭ · BAR 3

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 12 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 25 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 120 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 120, 140 and 160 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Я не ходил на каратэ use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 59.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-13, 28-43, 54 and 60-75, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Я не ходил на каратэ hard?

12 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED