FOREGROUND ECLIPSE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 43-49 and 99-105, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 140 BPM
TRUTHS, IRONIES, THE SECRET LYRICS (2013 VER.) · BAR 43

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 63 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 105 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. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 105, 123 and 140 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 Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 28.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 27-33, 43-49, 99-105 and 115-120, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 15 times over the song.

Is the beat in Truths, Ironies, The Secret Lyrics (2013 Ver.) hard?

31 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 63 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 · 154 BARS ANALYSED