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The drum beat in PRAISES [Correct Version] [4 string bass arrangement]

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-37, 66-73 and 92, and 1 more place -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 144 BPM
PRAISES [CORRECT VERSION] [4 STRING BASS ARRANGEMENT] · BAR 31

It is played on the hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 46 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 108 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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 108, 126 and 144 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 PRAISES [Correct Version] [4 string bass arrangement] use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, in 4/4 at 144 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 30-37, 66-73, 92 and 94. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in PRAISES [Correct Version] [4 string bass arrangement] hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED