IV OF SPADES · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Come Inside of My Heart

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 50-56, and 15 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
30/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 113 BPM
COME INSIDE OF MY HEART · BAR 19

It is played on ride, snare and floor tom, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 30 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 85 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 85, 99 and 113 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 Come Inside of My Heart use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and floor tom, in 4/4 at 113 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 40.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 18-24, 26-32, 50-56 and 58-64, and 14 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in Come Inside of My Heart hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED