T. REX · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Jeepster V2

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 23-78 and 87-101, and 6 more places -- 76.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
27/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 175 BPM
JEEPSTER V2 · BAR 1

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 15 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 27 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 131 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 131, 153 and 175 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 Jeepster V2 use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 175 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 76.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-20, 23-78, 87-101 and 118-157, and 5 more places.

Is the beat in Jeepster V2 hard?

15 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 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 · 197 BARS ANALYSED