CUPSIZE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in розовая могила full

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 22 and 24, and 9 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 105 BPM
РОЗОВАЯ МОГИЛА FULL · BAR 11

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 67 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 68 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 68 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. 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 68, 81, 93 and 105 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 розовая могила full use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 105 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 11-16, 22, 24 and 26, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in розовая могила full hard?

67 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED