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The drum beat in Passion

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 21 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
44/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 194 BPM
PASSION · BAR 57

It is played on crash and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 44 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 146 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 146, 170 and 194 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 Passion use?

A one-bar groove on crash and kick, in 4/4 at 194 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 57, 59, 61 and 63, and 20 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.

Is the beat in Passion hard?

17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 44 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