BIG DADDY WEAVE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in The only name

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 28-29 and 74, and 1 more place -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 117 BPM
THE ONLY NAME · BAR 1

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 41 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 88 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 88, 102 and 117 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 The only name use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 117 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-20, 28-29, 74 and 77-82. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in The only name hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 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 · 115 BARS ANALYSED