ENVINE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in WIP SONG IDEA

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-26, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 206 BPM
WIP SONG IDEA · BARS 13-14

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 52 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 155 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 155, 180 and 206 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 WIP SONG IDEA use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 6/4 at 206 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13-15, 17-18, 21-26 and 53-55, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 18 times over the song.

Is the beat in WIP SONG IDEA hard?

35 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 52 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 · 236 BARS ANALYSED