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The drum beat in Jaws Theme Swimming

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-31, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 141 BPM
JAWS THEME SWIMMING · BARS 10-11

It is played on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 38 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 106 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, hi-hat 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 106, 123 and 141 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 Jaws Theme Swimming use?

A 2-bar phrase on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 3/4 at 141 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 32.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-15, 18-23, 26-31 and 34-39, and 9 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Jaws Theme Swimming hard?

24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 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 · 202 BARS ANALYSED