CHANEL BEADS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Police Scanner

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 31-35 and 51-55, and 1 more place -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
22/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 122 BPM
POLICE SCANNER · BAR 7

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 22 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 92 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 92, 107 and 122 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 Police Scanner use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 122 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-10, 31-35, 51-55 and 58-69. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Police Scanner hard?

13 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED