METANICK · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Kaiju Girl Caramelise Opening | KAIJU GIRL

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-54 and 78-80, and 5 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 192 BPM
KAIJU GIRL CARAMELISE OPENING | KAIJU GIRL · BAR 46

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 63 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 68 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

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 125 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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 125, 147, 170 and 192 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 Kaiju Girl Caramelise Opening | KAIJU GIRL use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 192 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 19.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 45-51, 53-54, 78-80 and 82-83, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 22 times over the song.

Is the beat in Kaiju Girl Caramelise Opening | KAIJU GIRL hard?

63 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED