Fabulous Disaster · Exodus

251 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-131, 133-139 and 141-147, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
FABULOUS DISASTER · BAR 125
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 24, 27, 31 and 18 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 15 sections: 187 keep time, 25 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-108.

PART F
PART H
PART R
PART U
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 2
8 groovesWADRHU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fabulous Disaster?

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

Is Fabulous Disaster hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 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 Fabulous Disaster?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 24, 27, 31 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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