PARTY SONG · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in tilt fight

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-37, 39-46 and 72-87, and 1 more place -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 171 BPM
TILT FIGHT · BAR 23

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 66 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 66 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 111 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. 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.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 111, 131, 151 and 171 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 tilt fight use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 171 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 43.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 22-37, 39-46, 72-87 and 89-96. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in tilt fight hard?

66 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED