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The drum beat in Es Hora

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-20 and 29-32, and 3 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
ES HORA · BAR 5

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 15 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 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 90 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 90, 105 and 120 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 Es Hora use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 54.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-8, 17-20, 29-32 and 41-44, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Es Hora hard?

15 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 44 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 · 78 BARS ANALYSED