ELEVATION RHYTHM & JONATHAN STAMPER · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in TAKEOVER

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-63, 145-175 and 217-219 -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
7:58
DIFFICULTY
33/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 132 BPM
TAKEOVER · BAR 42

It is played on the snare, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 33 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 99 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. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 99, 116 and 132 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 TAKEOVER use?

A one-bar groove on snare, in 4/4 at 132 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.8% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 42-63, 145-175 and 217-219. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 25 times over the song.

Is the beat in TAKEOVER hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 33 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 · 263 BARS ANALYSED