MOTIONLESS IN WHITE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Scoring The End Of The World

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 27-32 and 35-37, and 14 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 172 BPM
SCORING THE END OF THE WORLD · BAR 43

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 30 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 46 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 129 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 129, 151 and 172 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 Scoring The End Of The World use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 172 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 69.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 3-17, 27-32, 35-37 and 39-40, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in Scoring The End Of The World hard?

30 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 46 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 · 160 BARS ANALYSED