MODERN CINEMA MASTER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 我知道他們是假貨

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 49-51 and 53-56, and 3 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
37/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
我知道他們是假貨 · BAR 5

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 37 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 101 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 101, 118 and 135 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 我知道他們是假貨 use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-8, 49-51, 53-56 and 65-67, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in 我知道他們是假貨 hard?

26 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED