THREE MAN DOWN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in วันเกิดฉันปีนี้ HBD To Me

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 26-28 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 78 BPM
วันเกิดฉันปีนี้ HBD TO ME · BAR 26

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.

The whole song is 41 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 59 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. 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, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 59, 68 and 78 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 วันเกิดฉันปีนี้ HBD To Me use?

A one-bar groove on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 78 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 25.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-12, 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in วันเกิดฉันปีนี้ HBD To Me hard?

13 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 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 · 82 BARS ANALYSED