KPOP DEMON · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Soda Pop

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 37-43 and 48-52, and 1 more place -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
27/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 126 BPM
SODA POP · BAR 2

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 27 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 95 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 95, 110 and 126 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 Soda Pop use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 126 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 54.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-22, 37-43, 48-52 and 73-79. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in Soda Pop hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 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 · 84 BARS ANALYSED