23 · Ka

135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-29, 47-58 and 128-139 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
23 · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-118.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDOAFG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 23?

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

Is 23 hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 23?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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