Desire · Gary Hoey

101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-19, and 6 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
DESIRE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 30, 38, 41 and 4 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 56 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS3LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desire?

190 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Desire hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Desire?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 30, 38, 41 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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