Beast · F5

68 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25 and 27-34 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEAST · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 43, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGMHC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beast?

140 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 Beast hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Beast?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 43, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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