PHOENIX · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Lasso

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 50-56 and 88-95 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 152 BPM
LASSO · BAR 14

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 48 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 114 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.

Tempo goes 114, 133 and 152 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 Lasso use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 152 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 14-20, 50-56 and 88-95. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lasso hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 48 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 · 107 BARS ANALYSED