FLESHWATER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Enjoy V3

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 8 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
83/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 172 BPM
ENJOY V3 · BAR 24

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 54 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 83 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 112 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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, and nothing else. 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 112, 132, 152 and 172 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 Enjoy V3 use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 172 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 38.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 16-18, 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in Enjoy V3 hard?

54 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED