Half-time is in the full course
Move the snare to beat 3 and the same tempo feels twice as slow. About 3 minutes, in your browser.
- All 11 parts of Unit 2, 9 cards and a project: give one beat three feels: a walk, a strut and a rush.
- Every unit after it, as it opens
- Your Unit 1 cards, beats and progress carry over
Half-time
Move the snare to beat 3 and the same tempo feels twice as slow.
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Move the snare
DoneA backbeat at 140 BPM. Take the snare off 2 and 4 and put a single one on beat 3. The hats keep the same tempo, but the beat now feels half as fast.
3 boxes to fix.
Kickalready thereSnareyour turnHatsalready there -
Heard in
DoneThree tracks built on a half-time beat, each as our recreation of its drums, not the recording. Play each one and listen for the one snare in the middle of the bar.
0 of 3 heard.
- NightBenga & Coki · 2007
- Scary Monsters and Nice SpritesSkrillex · 2010
- Mask OffFuture · 2017
Our own recreations of each beat, not the recordings.
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Which one?
DoneThree beats at 150 BPM. One is half-time. Play each, then choose, and the card is yours.
Play each, then choose.
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Which one is half-time?
C: one snare, on beat 3. A has two snares a bar, on 2 and 4, so it feels twice as fast at the same tempo; B has no snare at all.
A: Backbeat KickSnareHatsB: Four-on-the-floor KickHatsC: Half-time ✓ KickSnareHats
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Lesson done
3 steps, all done, and saved to your account.
rhythm Half-timeA snare on beat 3 only, so it feels twice as slow
In your collectionReady to use: drop it into the beat maker, or find it any time in your collection.
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