BABYMETAL · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in ギミチョコ!!- Gimme chocolate!!

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4-5 and 8-9, and 12 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 220 BPM
ギミチョコ!!- GIMME CHOCOLATE!! · BAR 25

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 how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 60 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 143 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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. 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.
  3. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  4. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 143, 169, 194 and 220 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 ギミチョコ!!- Gimme chocolate!! use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 220 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 40.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1, 4-5, 8-9 and 25-39, and 11 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 ギミチョコ!!- Gimme chocolate!! hard?

54 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED