Fantastic · King Princess

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-36 and 39-46, and 3 more places -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
FANTASTIC · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 72.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 65 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-67.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fantastic?

106 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 Fantastic hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fantastic?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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