TURISAS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Rasputin

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-62 and 87-89, and 4 more places -- 19.2% 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
151
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 150 BPM
RASPUTIN · BAR 54

It is played on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 60 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.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. 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 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 Rasputin use?

A one-bar groove on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 19.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 54-56, 58-62, 87-89 and 91-94, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.

Is the beat in Rasputin hard?

17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 60 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 · 151 BARS ANALYSED