Five · holder

104 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FIVE · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 71, 78 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 13 sections: 52 keep time, 7 are fills, 15 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-88.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART C
PART S5
PART H
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesTOHS5V+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Five?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Five hard to play on drums?

49 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Five?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 71, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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