Ego-maniac · Roadkill

143 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96, 98-100 and 102, and 6 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EGO-MANIAC · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 103 and 104.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 5 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-125.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHATLG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ego-maniac?

140 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 Ego-maniac hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ego-maniac?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 53, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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