LADY PANK · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Kryzysowa Narzeczona

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 154 BPM
KRYZYSOWA NARZECZONA · BAR 18

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 53 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 116 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. 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 116, 135 and 154 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 Kryzysowa Narzeczona use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 154 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 58.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-19, 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in Kryzysowa Narzeczona hard?

35 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 53 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 · 150 BARS ANALYSED