ALAN WALKER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Alan Walker Lily

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 19-25, and 9 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 151 BPM
ALAN WALKER LILY · BAR 13

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 29 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 113 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, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. 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 113, 132 and 151 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 Alan Walker Lily use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 151 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 77.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13, 15-17, 19-25 and 35-41, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in Alan Walker Lily hard?

19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 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 · 122 BARS ANALYSED