Buy Your Time · Thesaurus Rex

183 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 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
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BUY YOUR TIME · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 28, 32, 35, 36, 49 and 16 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 24 are fills, 23 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

CHORUS
PART J
PART J
PART S
PART AC
PART S12
PART M
13 groovesAJACSM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buy Your Time?

196 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 Buy Your Time hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Buy Your Time?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 28, 32, 35, 36, 49 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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