Coma America · Amen

87 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-22, 31-38 and 55-62, and 1 more place -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
COMA AMERICA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-77.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma America?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Coma America hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Coma America?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

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