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Beast · F5

Beast · F5
EXERCISE 25 OF 35
Fill at bar 43
63 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beast on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34 and ride through bars 35-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-xx-x-xxx-xxx-|
Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-56 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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