Action And Action · Get Up Kids

151 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 27, and 12 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
ACTION AND ACTION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 20, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 13 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-99.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART B
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART F
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCKMHB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Action And Action?

153 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 Action And Action hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Action And Action?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 20, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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