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The drum beat in Dimension

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 24 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 145 BPM
DIMENSION · BAR 2

It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 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 109 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 109, 127 and 145 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 Dimension use?

A one-bar groove on snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 145 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2, 4, 6 and 8, and 23 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Dimension hard?

20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 44 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 · 146 BARS ANALYSED