HYPER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Spoiler

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 59-79 and 164-174 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 180 BPM
SPOILER · BAR 23

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 48 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 135 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 135, 158 and 180 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 Spoiler use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 180 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 23-29, 59-79 and 164-174. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 17 times over the song.

Is the beat in Spoiler hard?

24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 48 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 · 174 BARS ANALYSED