Electric Machine · Acid King

183 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 23 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ELECTRIC MACHINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16 and 54 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 2-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 56-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 60 are fills, 26 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-115.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART P
PART J
PART AL
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART AL
11 groovesKJALPAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Machine?

115 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 Electric Machine hard to play on drums?

44 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Electric Machine?

20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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