PEACHES · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Boys Wanna Be Her

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-38, 46-67 and 75-96, and 1 more place -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
26/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 138 BPM
BOYS WANNA BE HER · BAR 1

It is played on the kick, 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 26 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 104 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 104, 121 and 138 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 Boys Wanna Be Her use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 138 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 65.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-38, 46-67, 75-96 and 123-126. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 26 times over the song.

Is the beat in Boys Wanna Be Her hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 26 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 · 133 BARS ANALYSED