Desert Search For Techno Allah · Mr. Bungle

229 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 182-229 -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DESERT SEARCH FOR TECHNO ALLAH · BAR 182
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 23 sections: 154 keep time, 1 is a fill, 10 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-229.

PART S10
PART S
OUTRO 2
16 groovesWS10GSB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desert Search For Techno Allah?

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 Desert Search For Techno Allah hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Desert Search For Techno Allah?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

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