DAVID GUETTA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Titanium Ft. Sia

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 53-56 and 81-88, and 1 more place -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
27/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 126 BPM
TITANIUM FT. SIA · BAR 41

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 27 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

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 95 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 95, 110 and 126 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 Titanium Ft. Sia use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 126 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 35% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 41-48, 53-56, 81-88 and 113-120. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Titanium Ft. Sia hard?

19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 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 · 121 BARS ANALYSED