1987 · Betraying Lizard

260 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-96, 98-105 and 212-219, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
1987 · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 26, 30, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 23 sections: 170 keep time, 27 are fills, 36 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-53.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART T
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHTMV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1987?

182 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 1987 hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 1987?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 26, 30, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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