Answers · Angel Gunpowder

153 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 2:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-40, 49-80 and 89-120, and 1 more place -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ANSWERS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 4 sections: 122 keep time, 1 is a fill, 25 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesACS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Answers?

150 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Answers hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Answers?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

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