KRALLICE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Intraum

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 112-141 -- 18.1% 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
6/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
9:49
DIFFICULTY
82/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
INTRAUM · BAR 114

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 47 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 82 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 Intraum use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 6/4 at 135 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 18.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 112-141. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 16 times over the song.

Is the beat in Intraum hard?

47 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED