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The drum beat in Rituel

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 15-22 and 25-48, and 4 more places -- 96% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
31/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 142 BPM
RITUEL · BAR 7

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 31 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 107 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 107, 124 and 142 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 Rituel use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 142 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 96% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 7-10, 15-22, 25-48 and 51-70, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in Rituel hard?

22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED