ANNA ASTI · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Царица

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 43-44 and 61-64, and 6 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
30/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 116 BPM
ЦАРИЦА · BAR 7

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 30 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 87 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 87, 102 and 116 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Царица use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 116 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 29.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 7-13, 43-44, 61-64 and 70, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 16 times over the song.

Is the beat in Царица hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED