Ballistic · Harlott

73 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 1:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
1:11
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 30-33 and 55-58 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BALLISTIC · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 42.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
PART R
PART G
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesDGMRV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballistic?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ballistic hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 1:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ballistic?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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