Demo1 · BRICKBAT

41 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
0:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24 -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DEMO1 · BARS 10-11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 32 and 33.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 4 sections: 33 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBHLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demo1?

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

Is Demo1 hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 0:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Demo1?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 32 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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