BRIAN TYLER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in F1 Theme

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-43, 53-55 and 59-63, and 3 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
F1 THEME · BAR 77

It is played on the kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 41 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 75 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 75, 88 and 100 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 F1 Theme use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 58.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 31-43, 53-55, 59-63 and 68-70, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in F1 Theme hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED