BOLT THROWER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Remembrance

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 113-115, 117-119 and 121-123, and 61 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
368
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 190 BPM
REMEMBRANCE · BARS 113-114

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 63 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 143 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, ride 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 143, 166 and 190 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 Remembrance use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 190 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 53.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 113-115, 117-119, 121-123 and 125-127, and 60 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Remembrance hard?

28 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 63 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 · 368 BARS ANALYSED