Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match People online have been trying to nail the drumbeat before the final chorus of “I Will Always Love You.” It’s harder than it looks.

By Neil Vigdor

Cue the drumbeat, the one people think they know.

Boom. It lands right before Whitney Houston delivers the final chorus of the best-selling single of all time by a solo female artist, the music pausing first.

“And I,” she belts out with a vocal run, “will always love you.”

On social media, people have been attempting to recreate that unforgettable and thunderous interlude from the hit song featured in the 1992 movie “The Bodyguard” starring Ms. Houston, a cover of the 1974 ballad composed by Dolly Parton.

It is a test of reflexes.

Hollywood actors, professional athletes and ordinary people have learned just how difficult the timing of the drumbeat is, taking part in what has become known on social media as the Whitney Houston drum challenge.

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