SODA STEREO · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Prófugos

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-32 and 34-56, and 9 more places -- 88.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
76/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 130 BPM
PRÓFUGOS · BAR 3

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 57 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 76 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 85 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. 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 85, 100, 115 and 130 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 Prófugos use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 88.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-8, 10-32, 34-56 and 58-67, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Prófugos hard?

57 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED