象 · SUPER EIGHT

112 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 50-55 and 92-95, and 2 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
象 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 25, 41, 57, 80, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART F
PART L
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesHFLS9O+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 象?

167 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 象 hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 象?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 25, 41, 57, 80, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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