SEBNEM FERAH · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Sil Bastan

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-41 and 43-57, and 1 more place -- 96.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
23/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 83 BPM
SIL BASTAN · BAR 15

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 7 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 23 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 62 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, hi-hat 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 62, 73 and 83 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 Sil Bastan use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 83 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 96.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-12, 14-41, 43-57 and 59-65. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Sil Bastan hard?

7 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED