DISTEMPER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Начинаем отдыхать AI

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 50-57 and 89-96, and 3 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
65/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 208 BPM
НАЧИНАЕМ ОТДЫХАТЬ AI · BAR 162

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 45 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 65 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 156 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. 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.
  3. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  4. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 156, 182 and 208 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 Начинаем отдыхать AI use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 208 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-24, 50-57, 89-96 and 122-129, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Начинаем отдыхать AI hard?

45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED