BOBOBO · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Shiawase

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-32 and 46-51, and 1 more place -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 280 BPM
SHIAWASE · BAR 11

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 55 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 64 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 182 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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. 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 182, 215, 247 and 280 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 Shiawase use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 280 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 53.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-16, 18-32, 46-51 and 70-84. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.

Is the beat in Shiawase hard?

55 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 64 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 · 88 BARS ANALYSED