BREAKOUT · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Biel [NOL]

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 41-48 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
27/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 74 BPM
BIEL [NOL] · BAR 1

It is played on the hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 27 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 56 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.

Tempo goes 56, 65 and 74 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 Biel [NOL] use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, in 4/4 at 74 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 38.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-15 and 41-48. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Biel [NOL] hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 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 · 60 BARS ANALYSED