THE BANGLES · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Hazy Shade Of Winter

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 17 and 19-28, and 7 more places -- 84% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
14/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 132 BPM
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER · BAR 1

It is played on snare and 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 14 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 99 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 99, 116 and 132 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 Hazy Shade Of Winter use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 132 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 84% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-14, 17, 19-28 and 31, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Hazy Shade Of Winter hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED