LP · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Lost on you

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-32, 34-42 and 45-74, and 4 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
10/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 87 BPM
LOST ON YOU · BAR 10

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 10 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 65 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 65, 76 and 87 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 Lost on you use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 87 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 84.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 3-32, 34-42, 45-74 and 76, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lost on you hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 10 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED