2 The Shortcut · Empath Ascension

309 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 6:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
309
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 28 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
2 THE SHORTCUT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 78, 98, 102, 121, 122, 126 and 31 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 121-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

309 bars across 26 sections: 180 keep time, 37 are fills, 28 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-77.

CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART Y
PART Y
18 groovesHYVAPP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 2 The Shortcut?

205 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 2 The Shortcut hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

309 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 2 The Shortcut?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 78, 98, 102, 121, 122, 126 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 309 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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