LOS HERMANOS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in O Vento

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-37, 46-53 and 108-123 -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
34/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 138 BPM
O VENTO · BAR 2

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 7 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 34 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 104 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. 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.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 104, 121 and 138 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 O Vento use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 138 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 52.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-37, 46-53 and 108-123. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in O Vento hard?

7 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 34 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 · 123 BARS ANALYSED