At The Speed of Light (electric) · Dimrain47

166 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 19-20, and 8 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT (ELECTRIC) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 19 sections: 109 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-163.

CHORUS
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
11 groovesFGNKS17+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At The Speed of Light (electric)?

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 At The Speed of Light (electric) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 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 At The Speed of Light (electric)?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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