Zhuriel wrote:
there is no way this song is 220 bpm, the drums, structure, phrasing and everything scream 110.
just look for example at the first 4 measures: you have a repeated pattern at 00:01:087 - 00:03:268 - 00:05:450 - 00:07:632 -, with chord changes on the latter two and one vocal phrase each, on 110bpm each of those is one measure which is very natural while in your current timing has each as 2 measures. in the next 4 measures it's even clearer with the big synth downbeats. i could go on but you get the point.
i don't even understand what you mean by the vocals "landing on 220" tbh, would you mind elaborating on that more?
hmm...interesting.
welp, at the top of all of these, I'll say that
this BPM topic is quite subjective, and ambiguous.Let's get into the song itself deeper since it has some properties from both 110 and 220 BPM:
From 110:
- Basically, the drums work with 110.
- Some parts without vocal feels more 110 because of the arrangements (e.g. 02:11:996 - separated by my bookmarks)
- Chorus parts are more like 110 (e.g. 01:19:632 - )
From 220:
- Intense parts like kiai are more 220-like, which contains more constant beats and vocal relay
- Iconic vocal parts, e.g. 00:23:723 (2,3,4,1,2,3,4) - that oh-oh thingy
- Rap-like vocal parts keep placing downbeats with long white ticks on 220, e.g. 00:44:723 - 01:02:177 -
From all the things above I can be convinced by both of them, but I picked 220 since it represents more on the structure I made on this map. It's much more instinctive for people to understand because people commonly play tons of 1/2 notes on most of the maps.
Again,
this is ambiguous because it has variants of properties, it just depends on how you look at it.
Here's my reply, and hope that can solve your problem.
(kinda mean but i have to say that the example you made is quite weird, since you paste only the timemarks of "white ticks" instead of "patterns", like you stated in the context. It did take me a while to understand what you meant. But your point is still constructive and worth to be discussed, still.)