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The drum beat in LORD OF THE LOST

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 37-46 and 51, and 20 more places -- 61.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 168 BPM
LORD OF THE LOST · BAR 29

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 18 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 38 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 126 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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 126, 147 and 168 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 LORD OF THE LOST use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 168 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 61.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 29-34, 37-46, 51 and 53, and 19 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in LORD OF THE LOST hard?

18 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED