Defiance · Yes?

102 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 6:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
6:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-71, 73-75 and 85-87, and 5 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEFIANCE · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 23 are fills, 15 are stops and 106 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-100.

PART E
PART I
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS10ADIXE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Defiance?

120 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Defiance hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 6:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Defiance?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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