DEMO SONG 2 · Adoration

81 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DEMO SONG 2 · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 11, 19, 28, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

PART A
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQJES6W+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is DEMO SONG 2?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is DEMO SONG 2 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DEMO SONG 2?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 7, 11, 19, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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