atad · asd

38 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 0:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
38
LENGTH
0:48
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-34 and 36-38 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ATAD · BARS 28-29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 35.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

38 bars across 3 sections: 33 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDLJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is atad?

190 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 atad hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

38 bars, about 0:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 atad?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 35.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 38 BARS ANALYSED
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