BEN10 · Ben 10

34 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 1:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
34
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19 -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BEN10 · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 33 and 34.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 33-34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

34 bars across 3 sections: 25 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BEN10?

136 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 BEN10 hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

34 bars, about 1:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in BEN10?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 33 and 34.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 34 BARS ANALYSED
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