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How an Indie Rock beat is built, from its 100-150 BPM drums to the bass and chords, and a free editor to start your own, part by part.
Start an Indie Rock beat freeHow an Indie Rock beat is built, from its 100-150 BPM drums to the bass and chords, and a free editor to start your own, part by part.
Start an Indie Rock beat freeWhat gives Indie Rock its sound, part by part. Start one free and the editor opens with a beat to build on: change, add or remove any part.
100-150 BPM.
Straight, no swing; dry and immediate, the hats carrying the movement, the kick breaking from four on the floor.
Dance-punk: the kick on 1 and 3 with soft ghost kicks, the snare on 2 and 4, an open hat on every beat and closed hats on the ands, a sixteenth snare fill closing every two bars; or four on the floor (indie disco), or an unchanging motorik eighth-note groove.
Busy eighth or sixteenth lines: octave jumps and pushes on the a of the beat, short and staccato.
I–vi–IV–V, vi–IV–I–V and I–IV–V–IV in E, A, D or G; the IV–iv–I sigh.
Angular or jangly clean guitars, a second guitar on eighth-note chords, dry tight drums, tambourine and shaker, picked bass.
The editor needs no account. Studio makes a whole song from one sentence, with an account and credits.