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The drum beat in Видели ночь

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 and 49-64 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
33/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
ВИДЕЛИ НОЧЬ · BAR 18

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 33 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 75 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 75, 88 and 100 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 Видели ночь use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 29.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-32 and 49-64. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Видели ночь hard?

20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 33 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 · 132 BARS ANALYSED