Ace Of Combat · Router

139 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ACE OF COMBAT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 13, 18, 21 and 16 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 66 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
BREAK
PART AA
OUTRO
11 groovesS9HDYAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ace Of Combat?

175 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Ace Of Combat hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Ace Of Combat?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 13, 18, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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