FABULOSOS CADILLACS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Mal Bicho

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 22-30 and 36-41, and 2 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 105 BPM
MAL BICHO · BAR 2

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 69 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 79 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 79, 92 and 105 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 Mal Bicho use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 105 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-16, 22-30, 36-41 and 56-67, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in Mal Bicho hard?

37 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED