ELEVATION RHYTHM · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in PRAISES

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 21-22 and 24-29, and 1 more place -- 22.5% 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
91
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
37/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 144 BPM
PRAISES · BAR 24

It is played on the snare, 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 37 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.

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 use?

A one-bar groove on snare, in 4/4 at 144 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 22.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 4-5, 21-22, 24-29 and 57-66. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in PRAISES hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED