Color Slowly Fading · concealer.

129 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
COLOR SLOWLY FADING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 33 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time, 39 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJWRF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Color Slowly Fading?

170 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 Color Slowly Fading hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Color Slowly Fading?

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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