THE AXE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Lukna

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-65 and 77-104 -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
26/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 130 BPM
LUKNA · BAR 38

It is played on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 26 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 98 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, and nothing else. 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 98, 114 and 130 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 Lukna use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 37.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 38-65 and 77-104. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lukna hard?

19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 26 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 · 151 BARS ANALYSED