BIG BOTTOM BOY · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 001 No Sex No Drugs Just Rockandroll

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-46 -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
33/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 240 BPM
001 NO SEX NO DRUGS JUST ROCKANDROLL · BAR 1

It is played on kick and hi-hat foot, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 25 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 33 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 180 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 180, 210 and 240 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 001 No Sex No Drugs Just Rockandroll use?

A one-bar groove on kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 240 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 59% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-46. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in 001 No Sex No Drugs Just Rockandroll hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED