Boss Fight · El Gregio

87 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 10-12 and 32, and 4 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BOSS FIGHT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 16 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDACIQW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boss Fight?

210 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 Boss Fight hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Boss Fight?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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