Dress Like A Target · Superjoint Ritual

113 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-21 and 44, and 5 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DRESS LIKE A TARGET · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-35.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEMGSU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dress Like A Target?

150 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 Dress Like A Target hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dress Like A Target?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 45, 49, 53, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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