Division Speed Attack · Division Speed

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-40 and 43, and 8 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DIVISION SPEED ATTACK · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 26, 28, 31, 32, 42 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 21 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-59.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesLYACS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Division Speed Attack?

120 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 Division Speed Attack hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Division Speed Attack?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 26, 28, 31, 32, 42 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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