Doomscroll · Underpromise

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24 and 70-85 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DOOMSCROLL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 3 more.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 9 sections: 107 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-29.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEQAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doomscroll?

130 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 Doomscroll hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 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 Doomscroll?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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