MOMENT OF CLARITY · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Крылья

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 85 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
310 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 310 BPM
КРЫЛЬЯ · BAR 82

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 46 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 233 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 233, 271 and 310 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 Крылья use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 310 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 51.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1, 3, 5 and 7, and 84 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.

Is the beat in Крылья hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED