! · Alternative Competition 3

152 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 32 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
! · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 52.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 3 sections: 34 keep time, 3 are fills, 113 are stops and 1 is silent.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is !?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ! hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in !?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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