Anything that ends with core is banned · Derek Anderson

36 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 0:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
0:52
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 1 more place -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ANYTHING THAT ENDS WITH CORE IS BANNED · BAR 20
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 4 sections: 31 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-36.

BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anything that ends with core is banned?

165 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 Anything that ends with core is banned hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 0:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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