STEPHEN SANCHEZ · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Until I Found You

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-37, 54-68 and 86-91 -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
32/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 101 BPM
UNTIL I FOUND YOU · BAR 23

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 32 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 76 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, ride 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 76, 88 and 101 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 Until I Found You use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 101 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 22-37, 54-68 and 86-91. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Until I Found You hard?

14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 32 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 · 92 BARS ANALYSED