Extremist · AA Le Composer

98 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 27, and 9 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
EXTREMIST · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 17, 49, 50, 51, 54 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 95-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 12 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-86.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesKBNEG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Extremist?

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 Extremist hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Extremist?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 17, 49, 50, 51, 54 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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