Control It · Static-X

111 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 33-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
CONTROL IT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 26 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-76.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIDGVJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Control It?

144 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 Control It hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Control It?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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