4 Songs · Superjoint Ritual

284 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 20 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
4 SONGS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 45, 56, 60 and 32 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 33 sections: 154 keep time, 38 are fills, 38 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-100.

CHORUS
PART M
PART S
PART M
CHORUS 5
24 groovesBMSAMAH+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4 Songs?

220 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 4 Songs hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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 4 Songs?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 45, 56, 60 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED
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