EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Home

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 48-63 and 91-106 -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
28/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 112 BPM
HOME · BAR 2

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 fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 28 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 84 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 84, 98 and 112 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 Home use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 112 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 47% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-24, 48-63 and 91-106. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in Home hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 28 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 · 138 BARS ANALYSED