Faster Than The World · H2O

81 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-20 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
FASTER THAN THE WORLD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 24, 28 and 11 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 17 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHQLA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faster Than The World?

145 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 Faster Than The World hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The World?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 24, 28 and 11 more.

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