SOMBR · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Homewrecker

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-13 and 15-21, and 12 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
HOMEWRECKER · BAR 4

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 55 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 71 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 65 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 65, 77, 88 and 100 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 Homewrecker use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 70.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 3-5, 7-13, 15-21 and 23-25, and 11 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Homewrecker hard?

55 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED