MIGUEL RÍOS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Bienvenidos tabs

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 16 more places -- 55.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 194 BPM
BIENVENIDOS TABS · BAR 17

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 46 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 59 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 146 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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 146, 170 and 194 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 Bienvenidos tabs use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 194 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 55.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13-18, 20-22, 24-26 and 28-33, and 15 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Bienvenidos tabs hard?

46 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 59 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 · 176 BARS ANALYSED