J-ROCKS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Ceria

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 13-27, and 5 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 190 BPM
CERIA · BAR 97

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 42 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 143 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 143, 166 and 190 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 Ceria use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 190 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 57% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1, 3, 13-27 and 47-60, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in Ceria hard?

23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 42 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 · 177 BARS ANALYSED