Drum Beat on a Tom

This musical number depicted in Atomic Betty: The Animated Movie is sung by Tajja Isen and is the song used in the film itself. Also, Alexandra Lai, Melanie Tonello, Stephanie Morgenstern and Leah Cudmore lend their performances with Isen as they sing along the verse to her new hit.

In the film's continuity, Betty plays music on her boombox and has so much fun with her friends: Paloma, Sarah, Megan and Regeena at the school gym, but also dance to the music played on the Roland TR-909 as well as the TB-303 with the Nord Lead synthesizer and the Korg Volca Bass, while she sings along with them. The bass notes played on the Yamaha DX-7 are also added to her song.

Betty taps her foot to the TR-909 Closed Hi-hat sounds four times as she utters "5, 6, 7, 8" over the Closed Hi-hat sounds before the "punchy" 909 kick drum with an "oomph" on tune mode before other TR-909 sounds become added.

The TR-909 toms are sounded as they pretend like drumming practice, as they drum on their tummies while feeling the groove, as well as the Nepheton 808 laser gun sounds (the knobs pointing up) added to a certain 909 pattern. They also follow the 909 clap sounds as they clap their hands to her song as well.

Lyrics
Betty:

(5, 6, 7, 8)

(Techno music starts)

Betty:

(Check it out, now)

(Drum beat on a tom, baby)

(Uhh, uhh)

(Ready?)

Together:

(OK!)

(Singing)

There’s something special for a world of life

We’re the girls united in all of Moose Jaw Heights

The drum and bass sounds all roll in one

Feel the rhythm of the groove, so there’s intergalactic fun

The toms get sounded, where it plays along

Follow the techno music to my galactic song

Every tune has a feeling, it never gets too long

Move to the beat, drum around to the tom

Together:

Drum beat on a tom

Follow the song

It’ll never go wrong

Dance to the beat and groove along

Feel the laser gun

Make your move to the music for fun

In more ways than one

Drum beat on a tom

Look around you

The Nebular aliens collide

Searching for a spaceship

We’re with you side-by-side

Lasers blasting, fighting all the mutants into battle

Robots and Blood Monks approaching, defeating them while settled

The kick drum loop, the snare that gets sounded

The zaps that I hear, it won’t get too crowded

Feel the tom tom drums, closed and open hi-hats

The rhythm’s as perfect as the song really gets

Caring for each other can be perfectly easy

The wind out there feels erratically breezy

Hope and faith awaits me, and that’s the truth

Feel the beat and get in the groove

Together:

Drum beat on a tom

Follow the song

It’ll never go wrong

Dance to the beat and groove along

Feel the laser gun

Make your move to the music for fun

In more ways than one

Drum beat on a tom

(TR-909 Toms drumming percussion)

Betty:

(Drum on the tom)

(TR-909 Toms percussion continues)

Betty:

(Groove to the beat)

(TR-909 drum machine percussion)

Betty:

(Feel the rhythm, baby)

(Percussion continues)

Betty:

(Clap it out now)

(TR-909 Hand Clap percussion)

(Percussions together)

Betty:

(Laser blast, baby)

(Nepheton 808 Laser Gun percussion)

Betty:

(Feel the kick drum)

(TR-909 Bass Drum: Boom, b-boom boom, b-boom boom boom boom)

Betty:

(Snare drum)

(TR-909 Bass and Snare Drum percussion)

(TR-909 Crash Cymbal percussion)

(TR-909 Crash Cymbal, Snare Drum and Hand Clap percussion)

Betty:

Yeah, yeah

Together:

Drum beat on a tom

Betty:

Drum beat on a tom

Follow the song

It’ll never go wrong

Betty:

Oh, yeah

Dance to the beat and groove along

Betty:

Groove along, baby

Feel the laser gun

Make your move to the music for fun

In more ways than one

Drum beat on a tom

Together:

Drum beat on a tom

Follow the song

It’ll never go wrong

Dance to the beat and groove along

Feel the laser gun

Make your move to the music for fun

In more ways than one

Drum beat on a tom

Betty:

Oh, yeah

Drum beat on a tom

(TR-909 Beats percussion with toms)

(Yeah, yeah)

(Drum on the tom)

(Drum on the tom)

(Music continues 2X till it ends)