Dres · Big Cyc

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 33 and 36-38, and 6 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DRES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 95 keep time, 5 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBIJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dres?

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 Dres hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dres?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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