ALTERNATIVE COMPETITION 2 · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Acceptance

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-39 and 58-65, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
26/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 112 BPM
ACCEPTANCE · BAR 59

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 4 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 26 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 84 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 84, 98 and 112 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 Acceptance use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 112 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-9, 28-39, 58-65 and 67-71, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Acceptance hard?

4 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 26 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 · 149 BARS ANALYSED