Faster than light · Unleash The Archers

242 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-22, and 25 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FASTER THAN LIGHT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 60 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 24 sections: 141 keep time, 66 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 212-229.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART AH
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
10 groovesFROAHAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faster than light?

160 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 Faster than light hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Faster than light?

26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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