Character Development (Cold Start) · 156/Silence

127 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-74 and 77-83 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (COLD START) · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 21 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 52 keep time, 28 are fills, 27 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-83.

PART A
PART F
PART J
PART S6
CHORUS
PART AN
PART AP
OUTRO
12 groovesAGS6FJAN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Character Development (Cold Start)?

155 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 Character Development (Cold Start) hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Character Development (Cold Start)?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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