Decrement · sillyserpent

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 30, and 3 more places -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DECREMENT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 56 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 29 keep time, 62 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

CHORUS
PART E
PART AB
PART BB
PART S8
PART E
OUTRO
10 groovesKABES11S8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decrement?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Decrement hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Decrement?

26 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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