TINA TURNER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Simply the Best - eDrums

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-28, 30-36 and 38-43, and 3 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 105 BPM
SIMPLY THE BEST - EDRUMS · BAR 19

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 26 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 59 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 79 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. 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 79, 92 and 105 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 Simply the Best - eDrums use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 105 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 46.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 18-28, 30-36, 38-43 and 46-56, and 2 more places.

Is the beat in Simply the Best - eDrums hard?

26 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 59 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 · 106 BARS ANALYSED