Artificial Red full song · Mad Season

75 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 6:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-17 and 23-29, and 1 more place -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
ARTIFICIAL RED FULL SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 30, 34 and 10 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 16 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAS5DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Artificial Red full song?

73 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Artificial Red full song hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Artificial Red full song?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 30, 34 and 10 more.

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