Entropy · boing

285 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ENTROPY · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 42, 45, 49, 75, 97 and 20 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 29 sections: 210 keep time, 26 are fills, 26 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-28.

PART D
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AL
PART BB
PART BF
CHORUS 3
PART J
22 groovesEJPBBBF+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Entropy?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Entropy hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Entropy?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 30, 42, 45, 49, 75, 97 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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