Altering The Future · Death

164 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 73-79 and 81-86, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
ALTERING THE FUTURE · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 16 sections: 92 keep time, 22 are fills, 8 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART B
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
BREAK
10 groovesRLS16BP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Altering The Future?

123 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 Altering The Future hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Altering The Future?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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