Conduit · Russian Circles

184 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-107, 109-111 and 113, and 8 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
CONDUIT · BAR 106
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 33, 57, 60 and 13 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 18 sections: 112 keep time, 19 are fills, 21 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesDUPBT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Conduit?

167 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 Conduit hard to play on drums?

54 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Conduit?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 33, 57, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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