Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches · "Event Horizon"

88 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 3:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BASEMENT SHOW 1 - TICKS AND LEECHES · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 35 more.

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 8 sections: 27 keep time, 41 are fills and 79 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART S
PART AF
PART AO
BREAK
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS8ASS6AF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches?

162 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches?

3 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 35 more.

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