ANOUK · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Girl

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 41-55 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 66.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 137 BPM
GIRL · BAR 2

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 45 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 62 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 103 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.

  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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 103, 120 and 137 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 Girl use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 137 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 66.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-31, 41-55, 57-63 and 74-83, and 1 more place.

Is the beat in Girl hard?

45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 62 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 · 119 BARS ANALYSED