F1 Theme · Brian Tyler

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-43, 53-55 and 59-63, and 3 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
F1 THEME · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 14 sections: 121 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-149.

PART F
PART S4
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
10 groovesRFUS4S+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is F1 Theme?

100 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 F1 Theme hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 F1 Theme?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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