Defying the Rules · Hibria

217 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27, and 23 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DEFYING THE RULES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 15 sections: 116 keep time, 80 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-160.

PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFMIAKA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Defying the Rules?

150 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 Defying the Rules hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Defying the Rules?

25 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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