Exploded Diper · Loded Diper

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 1:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 11-12 and 31, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 99 BPM
EXPLODED DIPER · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 5 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 23-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 3 sections: 28 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exploded Diper?

99 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Exploded Diper hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Exploded Diper?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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