953 · Black Midi

173 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 280 BPM, 2:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-25 and 32-38, and 1 more place -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 280 BPM
953 · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 39, 130, 132, 133 and 8 more.

LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BARS 132-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 14 are fills, 47 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-127.

PART C
PART C
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCS11AHAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 953?

280 BPM, in 6/4, 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 953 hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 953?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 39, 130, 132, 133 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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