The tempo then increases, and the drum set enters on the track. The next section is a bit faster, incorporating groove-based solo ideas over a syncopated sixteenth-note track. The rhythmic intensity increases, aided by the electronic melodies. The phrases again stretch over the barline. The left hand plays rhythmic brush sweeps be- fore switching to a stick, when both hands play sixteenth-note based rhythms. The quintuplet theme now returns, this time with a stick in the right hand. The intensity is heightened by increasing the rate of subdivisions to sextuplets, phrased across the beat and over the bar. This rhythmic phrasing is explored throughout the piece. The snare enters on measure four, playing a theme comprised of quintuplet partials. The snares are to be turned off, and the performer should have brushes at the ready. The audio track starts with three measures of solo metronome in 4/4 at 90 bpm.
However, this is not just any metronome Russell Wharton sampled the sounds from the Boss DB-90 and used them as both a click track and melodic source (by manipulating the DB-90’s tuning pitches). As one may infer from the title, the audio track is the metronome. “Deus Ex Metronome” is a snare drum solo with audio accompaniment.