Big Attack · Beatsteaks

99 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 26-33 and 38-41, and 2 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BIG ATTACK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 31 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-68.

CHORUS
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Attack?

185 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 Big Attack hard to play on drums?

29 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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