МОЛЧАТ ДОМА (MOLCHAT DOMA) · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Судно (Sudno)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 27-42 and 47-86 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
70/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 160 BPM
СУДНО (SUDNO) · BAR 9

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 62 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 70 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

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 104 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 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, 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 104, 123, 141 and 160 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 Судно (Sudno) use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 85.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-24, 27-42 and 47-86. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in Судно (Sudno) hard?

62 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED