Dandelion · 7 Angels 7 Plagues

176 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 118-119, 122-123 and 126-127, and 1 more place -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
DANDELION · BAR 130
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 35, 36, 45, 46, 62, 67 and 22 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 93 keep time, 28 are fills, 36 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-29.

PART F
PART K
PART Q
PART AC
PART AH
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesARAUKBFF+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dandelion?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dandelion hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

176 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dandelion?

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 35, 36, 45, 46, 62, 67 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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