Divide & Conquer · Michael Romeo Solo

35 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 0:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
0:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 and 29-34 -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
DIVIDE & CONQUER · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20 and 2 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 3 sections: 24 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesKEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Divide & Conquer?

146 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 Divide & Conquer hard to play on drums?

63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 0:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Divide & Conquer?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 35 BARS ANALYSED
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