Ball Tongue-Korn · Kamikaze 41 Covers

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92-94 and 100-102, and 3 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BALL TONGUE-KORN · BAR 89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 35, 43, 69, 70 and 8 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 69-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-61.

PART B
PART I
PART N
PART Z
PART AA
PART I
PART AH
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAUINAHAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ball Tongue-Korn?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ball Tongue-Korn hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ball Tongue-Korn?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 35, 43, 69, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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