CAIFANES · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in La Bestia Humana

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-33 and 35-49, and 4 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 137 BPM
LA BESTIA HUMANA · BAR 11

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 67 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 62 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

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 89 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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 89, 105, 121 and 137 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 La Bestia Humana use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 137 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 49.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 11-25, 27-33, 35-49 and 61-65, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in La Bestia Humana hard?

67 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED