eXistenZ · Candy

64 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 1:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 32 and 34, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
EXISTENZ · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 7 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 9 sections: 34 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-26.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEPSB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is eXistenZ?

188 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 eXistenZ hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:22 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 eXistenZ?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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