Answer and Answer · 9mm Parabellum Bullet

164 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-39 and 41-48, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 163 BPM
ANSWER AND ANSWER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 57, 61 and 17 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 19 sections: 108 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-53.

VERSE 2
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesEQHUF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Answer and Answer?

163 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 Answer and Answer hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Answer and Answer?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 57, 61 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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