W.A.S.P. · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 40-60 and 80-164 -- 72.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
23/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 136 BPM
9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y. · BAR 17

It is played on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 11 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 23 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 102 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, and nothing else. 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 102, 119 and 136 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 9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y. use?

A one-bar groove on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 136 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 72.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-24, 40-60 and 80-164. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in 9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y. hard?

11 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED