AB IRATO · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Pax Non Est Ab Irato

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32, 35-46 and 64, and 2 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
21/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
PAX NON EST AB IRATO · BAR 15

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 21 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 113 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.

Tempo goes 113, 131 and 150 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 Pax Non Est Ab Irato use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 15-32, 35-46, 64 and 68, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 16 times over the song.

Is the beat in Pax Non Est Ab Irato hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED