Distress · Mad Caddies

123 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 20-22, and 11 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
DISTRESS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 27, 28, 47, 49, 67 and 8 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 14 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-26.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesGMCJSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Distress?

134 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Distress 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Distress?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 27, 28, 47, 49, 67 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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