Drum beat · Intermediate

Train beat (country drum beat)

Unbroken snare sixteenths with 2 and 4 picked out: the beat country rides. Right, left all the way, full strokes on 2 and 4 and taps between. Kick on 1 and 3.

Tempo: 100 BPM
Level: Intermediate 3 of 5
Time signature: 4/4
Feel: Straight 16ths
Run: 29 s · 12 bars
Limbs: Both hands and the kick foot

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The pattern

Train beat: one row per drum, one column per sixteenth of a bar of 4/4
Drum	1	e	&	a	2	e	&	a	3	e	&	a	4	e	&	a
Snare	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)	X	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)	(x)	X	(x)	(x)	(x)
Kick	x								x

Each column is a sixteenth. x is a hit, a bold X an accent and a small (x) a ghost note.

Plays it twice at 100 BPM.

How to count it

Count: 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a

Kick on 1 and 3; snare on 2 and 4, ghost notes on every sixteenth between. Said aloud: 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a

How to practise it

Start with the snare on its own, on 2 and 4, ghost notes on every sixteenth between.
Add the kick, on 1 and 3.
Count aloud and play it through as DRUMY does: 12 bars at 100 BPM, about 29 seconds.

What DRUMY judges

Each note is judged on when it lands, within 140 ms, and on which drum, not on how hard: the accents and ghost notes are drawn, not judged. All of what DRUMY judges.