CAVETOWN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Sweet Tooth cavetown

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 36, and 2 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 140 BPM
SWEET TOOTH CAVETOWN · BAR 25

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 18 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 38 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.

  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 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 Sweet Tooth cavetown use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 47.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 25-26, 29-30, 36 and 50-75, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 18 times over the song.

Is the beat in Sweet Tooth cavetown hard?

18 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 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 · 132 BARS ANALYSED