Circle With Me · Box Of Spirits

200 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 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
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-21, 23-24 and 73-77, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
CIRCLE WITH ME · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 50, 96, 104 and 8 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 22 sections: 86 keep time, 14 are fills, 61 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-95.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO 2
18 groovesKNAIBU+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Circle With Me?

205 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 Circle With Me 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Circle With Me?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 42, 46, 50, 96, 104 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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