FEMTANYL · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in GIRL HELL 1999

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-32, 41-47 and 65-71, and 3 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 175 BPM
GIRL HELL 1999 · BAR 27

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 many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 36 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 131 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 131, 153 and 175 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 HELL 1999 use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 175 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 49.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 27-32, 41-47, 65-71 and 73-79, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.

Is the beat in GIRL HELL 1999 hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED