Afterimage · Rush

185 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
AFTERIMAGE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 11 sections: 135 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-116.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AI
PART A
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHAAENAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afterimage?

150 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 Afterimage hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Afterimage?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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