Big Timber · Himsa

157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 11-12, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BIG TIMBER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 26 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

CHORUS
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
PART AB
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJMIV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Timber?

160 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 Timber hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Big Timber?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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