Aphasiac · Caterpillar

153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
APHASIAC · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 48, 52, 56 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 10 sections: 100 keep time, 30 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-103.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDNKAAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aphasiac?

160 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 Aphasiac hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Aphasiac?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 48, 52, 56 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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