AUS ROTTEN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in The 2Second Rape

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 22-23 and 29-31, and 17 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE 2SECOND RAPE · BAR 29

It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 52 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 139 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 139, 162 and 185 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 The 2Second Rape use?

A one-bar groove on snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 185 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 15, 22-23, 29-31 and 43, and 16 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.

Is the beat in The 2Second Rape hard?

33 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED