Drop The Guillotine · Peach Pit

149 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13 and 33, and 17 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DROP THE GUILLOTINE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 20 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 16 sections: 85 keep time, 26 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-135.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNIMJAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drop The Guillotine?

175 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Guillotine hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Drop The Guillotine?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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