Ecstasy · Portrayal Of Guilt

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ECSTASY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

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

Questions

What BPM is Ecstasy?

100 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 Ecstasy hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ecstasy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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