FCPREMIX (Full step down) · Bleh

180 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
FCPREMIX (FULL STEP DOWN) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 14 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 20 are fills, 37 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-175.

CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBMFIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FCPREMIX (Full step down)?

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

Is FCPREMIX (Full step down) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 FCPREMIX (Full step down)?

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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