Drop Out · Converge

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:09 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 1 more place -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DROP OUT · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 24 are fills, 6 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-28.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART S5
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAS8XHM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drop Out?

200 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drop Out hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drop Out?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

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