ADO · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 新時代 (ウタ from ONE PIECE FILM RED)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-24, 32 and 34, and 16 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
29/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 118 BPM
新時代 (ウタ FROM ONE PIECE FILM RED) · BAR 20

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth 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 29 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 89 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 89, 103 and 118 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 新時代 (ウタ from ONE PIECE FILM RED) use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 118 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 54.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 20-24, 32, 34 and 36, and 15 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in 新時代 (ウタ from ONE PIECE FILM RED) hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 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 · 156 BARS ANALYSED