Against Greed · The Blackberries.com

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 11 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
AGAINST GREED · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 and 29 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 25 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-58.

PART D
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGNSDZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Against Greed?

103 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 Against Greed hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Against Greed?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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