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The drum beat in New York avec toi V2

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-26, 44-46 and 48-65 -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 160 BPM
NEW YORK AVEC TOI V2 · BAR 9

It is played on snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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 120 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 120, 140 and 160 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 New York avec toi V2 use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 44.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-26, 44-46 and 48-65. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.

Is the beat in New York avec toi V2 hard?

17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 42 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 · 94 BARS ANALYSED