AXEL BAUER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Eteins La Lumière

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-37, 51-78 and 104-127 -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
ETEINS LA LUMIÈRE · BAR 10

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 34 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 113 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 113, 131 and 150 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 Eteins La Lumière use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 66.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-37, 51-78 and 104-127. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in Eteins La Lumière hard?

14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 34 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 · 136 BARS ANALYSED