DATE RAPE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Туши Моё Пламя Бензином

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 106-131 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 226 BPM
ТУШИ МОЁ ПЛАМЯ БЕНЗИНОМ · BAR 3

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 49 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 41 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 170 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.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 170, 198 and 226 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 Туши Моё Пламя Бензином use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 226 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 31.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-8, 10-16 and 106-131. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in Туши Моё Пламя Бензином hard?

49 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 41 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 · 133 BARS ANALYSED