DISPUTED · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in PS Sample 2

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-52, 54-60 and 62-68, and 3 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 135 BPM
PS SAMPLE 2 · BAR 46

It is played on mid tom and floor tom, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 8 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 62 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 101 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 101, 118 and 135 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 PS Sample 2 use?

A one-bar groove on mid tom and floor tom, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 34.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 46-52, 54-60, 62-68 and 70-76, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.

Is the beat in PS Sample 2 hard?

8 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED