THE BRAVERY · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in An Honest Mistake

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 14 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 140 BPM
AN HONEST MISTAKE · BAR 10

It is played on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 33 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 47 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 105 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 105, 123 and 140 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 An Honest Mistake use?

A one-bar groove on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 59.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-15, 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in An Honest Mistake hard?

33 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED