ROTTING CHRIST · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in King Of A Stellar War

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-80, 113-128 and 185-216, and 1 more place -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 144 BPM
KING OF A STELLAR WAR · BAR 66

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 51 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 108 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, ride 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 108, 126 and 144 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 King Of A Stellar War use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 144 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 65-80, 113-128, 185-216 and 249-264. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in King Of A Stellar War hard?

22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 51 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 · 297 BARS ANALYSED