Biba and The Goopies Band · VPL

58 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 24 and 26-36 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BIBA AND THE GOOPIES BAND · BAR 26
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 37, 38 and 39.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 5 sections: 44 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesECS4DRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Biba and The Goopies Band?

200 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 Biba and The Goopies Band hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 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 Biba and The Goopies Band?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 37, 38 and 39.

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