IS DEMOS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Lab Grown by infinite static vers 3

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-29, 52-65 and 133-140, and 2 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 190 BPM
LAB GROWN BY INFINITE STATIC VERS 3 · BAR 16

It is played on snare, high tom and kick, 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 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 143 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 143, 166 and 190 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 Lab Grown by infinite static vers 3 use?

A one-bar groove on snare, high tom and kick, in 4/4 at 190 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 16-29, 52-65, 133-140 and 143-148, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 17 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lab Grown by infinite static vers 3 hard?

25 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 · 206 BARS ANALYSED