KAMIL STŘIHAVKA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Země vzdálená

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-36, 61-63 and 65-67, and 7 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
ZEMĚ VZDÁLENÁ · BAR 33

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 13 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.

The whole song is 36 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 75 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, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 75, 88 and 100 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 Země vzdálená use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 28.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 33-36, 61-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Země vzdálená hard?

13 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 36 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 · 121 BARS ANALYSED