ENJAMBRE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Manía Cardiaca

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 39-50 and 87-89 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
71/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 98 BPM
MANÍA CARDIACA · BAR 1

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 71 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 74 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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 74, 86 and 98 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 Manía Cardiaca use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 98 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 30.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-14, 39-50 and 87-89. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Manía Cardiaca hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED