first song · cinema staff

153 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36 and 46-49 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
FIRST SONG · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 32 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 17 sections: 60 keep time, 38 are fills, 31 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-36.

PART B
PART I
PART R
PART Y
PART S
CHORUS
PART AL
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAGRBIAU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is first song?

190 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 first song hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 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 first song?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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