115 (B standard version) · Modern Warfare

19 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 0:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9 -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
115 (B STANDARD VERSION) · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 5 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 10-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars: 7 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 115 (B standard version)?

200 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 115 (B standard version) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 115 (B standard version)?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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