ERASERHEADS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Ligaya

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 35-36 and 39-49, and 5 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
35/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 125 BPM
LIGAYA · BAR 21

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 35 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 94 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 94, 109 and 125 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 Ligaya use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 125 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 54.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 21-22, 35-36, 39-49 and 52, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Ligaya hard?

13 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 35 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 · 140 BARS ANALYSED