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The drum beat in 庸俗救星 Vu我在這裡等你

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22 and 24, and 5 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 137 BPM
庸俗救星 VU我在這裡等你 · BAR 14

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 48 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. 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.
  2. 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 庸俗救星 Vu我在這裡等你 use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 137 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 32.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 14-20, 22, 24 and 26, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in 庸俗救星 Vu我在這裡等你 hard?

20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED