TURNSTILE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in WILD WRLD

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 2 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
WILD WRLD · BAR 77

It is played on the hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 53 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 113 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 113, 131 and 150 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 WILD WRLD use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-4, 6-8, 10-12 and 14, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.

Is the beat in WILD WRLD hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 53 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 · 107 BARS ANALYSED