LULU SANTOS LL · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in toda Forma De Amor

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-30 and 36-65, and 5 more places -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 137 BPM
TODA FORMA DE AMOR · BAR 46

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 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 103 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. 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 103, 120 and 137 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 toda Forma De Amor use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 137 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 70.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-10, 16-30, 36-65 and 81-91, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in toda Forma De Amor hard?

34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 44 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 · 126 BARS ANALYSED