ABSURD · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Stahl Blitz Kalt

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 41-48, and 4 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 155 BPM
STAHL BLITZ KALT · BAR 1

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 65 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

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 116 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 3 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  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 116, 136 and 155 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 Stahl Blitz Kalt use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 155 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-8, 17-24, 41-48 and 57-64, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Stahl Blitz Kalt hard?

21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED