BFG Division · Mick Gordon

299 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 232 BPM, 6:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 232 BPM
BFG DIVISION · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 20 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a stop and 175 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-151.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART S12
CHORUS 5
PART S16
BREAK 3
14 groovesES16S20S2S12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BFG Division?

232 BPM, in 6/4, 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 BFG Division hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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