SLEEP TOKEN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Say That You Will

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-92 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
28/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 133 BPM
SAY THAT YOU WILL · BAR 45

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 28 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 100 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 100, 116 and 133 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 Say That You Will use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 133 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 45-92. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Say That You Will hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 28 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 · 151 BARS ANALYSED