Another Distress · Dysthymia

26 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 0:53 of playing on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:53
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17 and 31 -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ANOTHER DISTRESS · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 5 sections: 20 keep time, 10 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesS5GANS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Distress?

180 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Another Distress hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Another Distress?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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