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The drum beat in only my railgun (electric guitar tab)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 143 BPM
ONLY MY RAILGUN (ELECTRIC GUITAR TAB) · BAR 13

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 73 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 77 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

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 5 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 79, 95, 111, 127 and 143 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 only my railgun (electric guitar tab) use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 143 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 39.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13-14, 31, 33-35 and 43-53, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in only my railgun (electric guitar tab) hard?

73 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED