BIRDS · Turnstile

90 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-77 and 83-89 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BIRDS · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 62, 78, 82 and 90.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBOGHM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BIRDS?

181 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 BIRDS hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in BIRDS?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 42, 62, 78, 82 and 90.

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