Belsen Was A Gas · Sex Pistols

84 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-83 -- 98.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BELSEN WAS A GAS · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 84
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars: 83 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-83.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Belsen Was A Gas?

170 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Belsen Was A Gas hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Belsen Was A Gas?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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