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The drum beat in Glare Of Autumn full

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 14-16 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
78/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
GLARE OF AUTUMN FULL · BAR 7

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 16 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 78 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

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 101 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. 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.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 101, 118 and 135 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 Glare Of Autumn full use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6-9, 14-16, 22-24 and 30-32, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 17 times over the song.

Is the beat in Glare Of Autumn full hard?

16 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED