Battlezone · When These Days End

55 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22 and 25-30 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BATTLEZONE · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 36 and 55.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time, 3 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKAPD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battlezone?

145 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 Battlezone hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Battlezone?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 36 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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