Expandera · Lifelover

129 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 17-23 and 25-31, and 6 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
EXPANDERA · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 129.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 86 keep time, 2 are fills, 12 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-79.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS7S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Expandera?

150 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 Expandera hard to play on drums?

37 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 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Expandera?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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