Analog Kid · Rush

221 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 21-30 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ANALOG KID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 34, 46, 50, 82, 84, 86 and 17 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 18 sections: 157 keep time, 23 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-73.

CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART A
7 groovesCIABL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Analog Kid?

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

Is Analog Kid hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Analog Kid?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 34, 46, 50, 82, 84, 86 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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