Acolyte · Slaughter Beach, Dog

160 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-81 -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ACOLYTE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 4 sections: 144 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-81.

CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBCS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acolyte?

124 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 Acolyte hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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