DULL · Turnstile

72 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DULL · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 25 keep time, 5 are fills and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-54.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
BREAK
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3FS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is DULL?

160 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 DULL hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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 DULL?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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