Demolition · Apace

68 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 22-23 and 28-29, and 4 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEMOLITION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 62 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 17 sections: 38 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 7
PART A
14 groovesCDBS14A+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demolition?

140 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 Demolition hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Demolition?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 62 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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