-F- · Arachnophobia

215 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-34 and 42-47, and 2 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
-F- · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 29, 35, 36, 52, 58 and 34 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 22 sections: 117 keep time, 43 are fills, 35 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AF
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
PART D
16 groovesJTAFAQA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is -F-?

202 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is -F- hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 -F-?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 29, 35, 36, 52, 58 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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