Deadlocked · Youth Fountain

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 54-55, and 5 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DEADLOCKED · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 26 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 10-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 40-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-77.

CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deadlocked?

100 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 Deadlocked hard to play on drums?

71 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?

78 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 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 Deadlocked?

3 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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