Did I Mention? · Descendants

101 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 12 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
DID I MENTION? · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 60 and 86.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 92 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Did I Mention??

162 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 Did I Mention? hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Did I Mention??

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 60 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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