Bug Eyes · Dredg

171 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36 and 61-76 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BUG EYES · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 40, 60, 80, 132 and 3 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 14 sections: 124 keep time, 9 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-124.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesECQNA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bug Eyes?

165 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 Bug Eyes hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 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 Bug Eyes?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 40, 60, 80, 132 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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