Acrophobic · HDLE

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 33-40 and 53-64, and 1 more place -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ACROPHOBIC · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 12 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-64.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART F
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFGS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acrophobic?

128 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 Acrophobic hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Acrophobic?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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