HEAVEN PIERCE HER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Dune Eternal

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 43-58, and 3 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
63/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 140 BPM
DUNE ETERNAL · BAR 43

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 65 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 63 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 91 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 91, 107, 124 and 140 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 Dune Eternal use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 39.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 27-29, 31-33, 43-58 and 105-107, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in Dune Eternal hard?

65 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 63 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 · 158 BARS ANALYSED