Extras · Arc Systems Works

166 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 21-23, and 10 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
EXTRAS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 41 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 19 sections: 75 keep time, 47 are fills, 19 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-69.

CHORUS
PART L
PART V
PART AD
PART L
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesELADAV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Extras?

124 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 Extras hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Extras?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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