Attention Span · By Rebelution

198 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 31 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ATTENTION SPAN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 39 and 20 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 22 sections: 109 keep time, 26 are fills, 34 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-142.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 6
PART Q
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEQIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Attention Span?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Attention Span hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Attention Span?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 39 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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