Esken bacon · Nuclear Prey

170 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-72 and 96-111 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ESKEN BACON · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 32 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 13 sections: 107 keep time, 38 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-111.

PART D
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQDAFMU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Esken bacon?

190 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 Esken bacon hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 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 Esken bacon?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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