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The drum beat in Lieb mich

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 29-43 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
LIEB MICH · BAR 4

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 41 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 101 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. 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 101, 118 and 135 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 Lieb mich use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 55.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 3-9, 29-43, 45-47 and 67-81, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lieb mich hard?

20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED