Connection Terminated · Wolf Spider AZ

170 bars, 11:01, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
11:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-32, 59-71 and 150-153, and 1 more place -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
CONNECTION TERMINATED · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 136, 141 and 154.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 154 · LANDS ON BAR 155
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 15 sections: 96 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-38.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART Z
CHORUS 3
12 groovesNS7AZQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Connection Terminated?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Connection Terminated hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 11:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Connection Terminated?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 136, 141 and 154.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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