CATUPECU MACHU · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Magia Veneno

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-29 and 37, and 12 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 136 BPM
MAGIA VENENO · BAR 15

It is played on hi-hat, snare and floor tom, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 42 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 102 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. 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 102, 119 and 136 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 Magia Veneno use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and floor tom, in 4/4 at 136 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 57.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 15-17, 19-29, 37 and 40, and 11 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Magia Veneno hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED