Boss Battle 1 · Chrono Trigger

81 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 29-35, and 4 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BOSS BATTLE 1 · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boss Battle 1?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boss Battle 1 hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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