Darwinism · Kublai Khan Tx

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-26 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DARWINISM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 57 and 8 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 43 keep time, 14 are fills, 52 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART S8
PART W
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBWIS11A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darwinism?

180 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 Darwinism hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Darwinism?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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