FHOP MUSIC · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Há Poder + Espontâneo

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-28 and 30-36, and 11 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 152 BPM
HÁ PODER + ESPONTÂNEO · BAR 7

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 10 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 34 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 114 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. 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 114, 133 and 152 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 Há Poder + Espontâneo use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 6/4 at 152 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 7-11, 13-28, 30-36 and 59, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in Há Poder + Espontâneo hard?

10 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 34 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 · 227 BARS ANALYSED