STATIC DRESS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in cubicle dialogue

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-143, 145-147 and 149-151, and 2 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 176 BPM
CUBICLE DIALOGUE · BAR 137

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 11 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 48 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 132 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 132, 154 and 176 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 cubicle dialogue use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 176 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 18.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 137-143, 145-147, 149-151 and 153-159, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in cubicle dialogue hard?

11 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED