SABATON · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Uprising

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 88 BPM
UPRISING · BAR 6

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 48 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 66 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, ride 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 66, 77 and 88 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 Uprising use?

A one-bar groove on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 88 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 6, 8, 10 and 12, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Uprising hard?

36 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 48 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 · 106 BARS ANALYSED