Disgrace · TopaZ

136 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-13 and 15-20, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DISGRACE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 21, 57, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-40.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART M
PART S
PART M
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEIMAEAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disgrace?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Disgrace hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Disgrace?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 21, 57, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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