Acceptance · Alternative Competition 2

149 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-39 and 58-65, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ACCEPTANCE · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 73.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 9 sections: 126 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-117.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBSCIJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acceptance?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Acceptance hard to play on drums?

26 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Acceptance?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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