‘Champion’ · Blackpink

112 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24 and 41-56 -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
‘CHAMPION’ · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 5 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART C
PART S9
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDCAFS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ‘Champion’?

160 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 ‘Champion’ hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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