BRING ME THE HORIZON · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Oh No

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23 and 33-39 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 115 BPM
OH NO · BAR 1

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 48 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 86 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 86, 101 and 115 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 Oh No use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 115 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-23 and 33-39. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in Oh No hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED