SHEENA RINGO · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-19, 25 and 38-44, and 1 more place -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ · BAR 15

It is played on ride and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 55 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 75 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, ride pulled back to quarter notes. 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 75, 88 and 100 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 椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ use?

A one-bar groove on ride and kick, in 3/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 15-19, 25, 38-44 and 60. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in 椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ hard?

22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED