ALL THAT REMAINS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in This Darkened Heart

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-23, 26-31 and 34-48, and 7 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
236 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 236 BPM
THIS DARKENED HEART · BARS 18-19

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 12 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 50 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 177 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, 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 177, 207 and 236 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 This Darkened Heart use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 236 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 18-23, 26-31, 34-48 and 82-87, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in This Darkened Heart hard?

12 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED