Sean Beat

The "Sean Beat" is a time signature played on a drumkit first pioneered by Sean Burbidge in 2005 during Year 8 music lessons. It is famed for its avant-garde timing and subsequent lack of any structure or consistency.

Creation
During Year 8 music lessons, Sean was required, like most of the class, to play an 8 beat on a drumkit to pass. The music department had failed, however, to underestimate his creative genius and what followed was the fateful first breaking of the restrictions that mere time signatures presented the young maestro with. A relatively meek opening, sounding like the requested beat played out-of-time, degenerates into a crescendo of powerful kit spam.

The test was failed.

Perfection and legacy
After the initial lesson, the Sean Beat was perfected throughout Year Nine, as the music room became Burbidge's form room alongside Jake and Hallam. By the end of the year, it had become a regular fixture, acting as a cacophonous wake-up call to the poor bastards in the adjacent maths mobiles.

Following Sean's departure from Humphrey Perkins, live performances all but ended. However, the sound is commonly emulated, often being heard during jams by seminal Bane Metal outfit Bane.com.