VINEYARD WORSHIP FT. BRENTON BROWN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in All Who Are Thirsty

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-19, 21-27 and 30-35 -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
21/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 76 BPM
ALL WHO ARE THIRSTY · BAR 4

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 3 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 21 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 57 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. 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, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 57, 67 and 76 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 All Who Are Thirsty use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 6/4 at 76 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 74.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 4-19, 21-27 and 30-35. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.

Is the beat in All Who Are Thirsty hard?

3 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED