JESUS A · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in cool boy

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 30-31 and 34-35, and 11 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
20/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 220 BPM
COOL BOY · BAR 30

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 5 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 20 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 165 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 165, 193 and 220 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 cool boy use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 2/4 at 220 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 23, 30-31, 34-35 and 42-47, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in cool boy hard?

5 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED