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The drum beat in Build Your Kingdom Here

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-46, 82-91 and 93, and 3 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
23/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
BUILD YOUR KINGDOM HERE · BAR 32

It is played on floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

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 101 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 101, 118 and 135 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 Build Your Kingdom Here use?

A one-bar groove on floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 32-46, 82-91, 93 and 95, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in Build Your Kingdom Here hard?

0 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 · 124 BARS ANALYSED