AREA PD · Paledusk

137 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 9 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
AREA PD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 22 and 43 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 18 sections: 54 keep time, 49 are fills, 13 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-57.

PART C
CHORUS
PART V
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AT
PART BF
PART BJ
PART S16
16 groovesFVBJATBF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AREA PD?

210 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 AREA PD hard to play on drums?

57 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?

137 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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.

How many fills are in AREA PD?

21 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 22 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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