SHINEDOWN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Three Six Five

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-13 and 18-20, and 17 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 107 BPM
THREE SIX FIVE · BAR 3

It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 16 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 80 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 80, 94 and 107 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 Three Six Five use?

A one-bar groove on snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 107 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 64.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-8, 10-13, 18-20 and 22-24, and 16 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Three Six Five hard?

16 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 · 96 BARS ANALYSED