CANTALE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Cuan grande es Dios

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-155 -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
8:37
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 72 BPM
CUAN GRANDE ES DIOS · BAR 107

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 43 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 54 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 54, 63 and 72 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 Cuan grande es Dios use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 72 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 39.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 107-155. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Cuan grande es Dios hard?

28 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED