ANONIM · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Cani Dilden Asik Oldum Muhammede Muhammede

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 17-18 and 22-23, and 10 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
17/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 79 BPM
CANI DILDEN ASIK OLDUM MUHAMMEDE MUHAMMEDE · BARS 12-13

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 9 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 17 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 59 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 59, 69 and 79 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 Cani Dilden Asik Oldum Muhammede Muhammede use?

A 2-bar phrase on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 79 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 12-13, 17-18, 22-23 and 27-28, and 9 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Cani Dilden Asik Oldum Muhammede Muhammede hard?

9 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED