OSTERREICH · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in 遺体 Live ver.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26-32 and 34-57 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
31/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 144 BPM
遺体 LIVE VER. · BAR 2

It is played on snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 8 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 31 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, and nothing else. 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 遺体 Live ver. use?

A one-bar groove on snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 144 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-24, 26-32 and 34-57. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in 遺体 Live ver. hard?

8 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED