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The drum beat in Prostitute Song duplicate

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 and 11-16 -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 230 BPM
PROSTITUTE SONG DUPLICATE · BAR 2

It is played on 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 how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 52 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

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 127 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 5 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. 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.
  3. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  4. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 127, 152, 178, 204 and 230 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 Prostitute Song duplicate use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 230 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 19.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-8 and 11-16. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Prostitute Song duplicate hard?

73 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 52 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 · 96 BARS ANALYSED