Disco · Surf Curse

105 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 9-17 and 19, and 8 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 173 BPM
DISCO · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 5 sections: 98 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-77.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disco?

173 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 Disco hard to play on drums?

51 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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