DARIUSH · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Cheshme Man

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-56 and 79-97 -- 70.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
20/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 75 BPM
CHESHME MAN · BAR 43

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 4 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 20 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 56 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 56, 66 and 75 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 Cheshme Man use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 75 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 70.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 33-56 and 79-97. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Cheshme Man hard?

4 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED