AI Drill music

138-146 BPM.

Written at 138-146 BPM, felt in half-time; dark, menacing, bouncy.

A two-bar phrase, straight (no swing): the snare (layered with a clap) on beat 3 of bar 1, then moved to beat 4 in bar 2; very few kicks, hit hard: beat 1 of bar 1 (and the "and" of 4), then beat 1, the "and" of 2 and the "and" of 4 in bar 2; hi-hats in 3-3-2 groups of sixteenths (steps 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 15 of each bar) with gaps, accents on each group's first hit, one short thirty-second roll at the end of the phrase, never trap's steady hats and constant triplet rolls; a quiet rim after the snare and one choked open hat.

Sliding 808s that start with the kicks: the odd bar holds one long root, the even bar talks, with one or two glides (up an octave and back, or to the minor third or fifth) leading into the next note; the other notes sustain without gliding.

Minor keys, often harmonic minor or phrygian: dark i–VI–iv–V or i–bII movement, slow (one chord per bar or two).

Dark piano or bells, sliding strings, choirs; a short, hard knock of a kick, a tight grime snare, hats pitched down and dark.