ANGRA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Rebirth

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-18, 31-34 and 53, and 17 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 149 BPM
REBIRTH · BAR 7

It is played on snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

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 112 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 112, 130 and 149 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 Rebirth use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 149 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 7-18, 31-34, 53 and 55, and 16 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 16 times over the song.

Is the beat in Rebirth hard?

13 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 · 131 BARS ANALYSED