4000 (Old) · Fennec

40 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 1:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
4000 (OLD) · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 11 and 30.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 13 keep time, 4 are fills and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesS5S3AS4DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4000 (Old)?

185 BPM, in 5/4, 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 4000 (Old) hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 4000 (Old)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 11 and 30.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 40 BARS ANALYSED
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