PERKELE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Heart Full Of Pride

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 43-58 and 61-76, and 4 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
35/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 166 BPM
HEART FULL OF PRIDE · BAR 25

It is played on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 35 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 125 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. 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 125, 145 and 166 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 Heart Full Of Pride use?

A one-bar groove on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 166 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 81% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 25-40, 43-58, 61-76 and 79-94, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in Heart Full Of Pride hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 35 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 · 194 BARS ANALYSED