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The drum beat in Shot Yourself In The Foot Again by Skream & Example

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-58, 91-95 and 101-104 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT AGAIN BY SKREAM & EXAMPLE · BAR 37

It is played on snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 47 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 105 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 105, 123 and 140 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 Shot Yourself In The Foot Again by Skream & Example use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 31% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 37-58, 91-95 and 101-104. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Shot Yourself In The Foot Again by Skream & Example hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED