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The drum beat in ロキ feat. Rin Kagamine

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 11-12, and 10 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
ロキ FEAT. RIN KAGAMINE · BAR 3

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth 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 69 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 98 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 98, 115, 133 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 ロキ feat. Rin Kagamine use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 3-5, 7, 11-12 and 21-23, and 9 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.

Is the beat in ロキ feat. Rin Kagamine hard?

54 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED