Album Song 1 (WIP) · Minimum Wage

99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ALBUM SONG 1 (WIP) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 27-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 34 keep time, 55 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-26.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesAAKEABX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Album Song 1 (WIP)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Album Song 1 (WIP) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Album Song 1 (WIP)?

15 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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