Disease (The Test) · Alternative Competition 5

46 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 2:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 14-16 and 34-38, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
DISEASE (THE TEST) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 13 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 27 keep time, 19 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-30.

CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesFS4IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disease (The Test)?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Disease (The Test) 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Disease (The Test)?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED
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