Flash Mountain · Djo

192 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 65-71 and 153-159, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
FLASH MOUNTAIN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 96, 117, 118, 125, 126 and 128.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 13 sections: 152 keep time, 6 are fills, 22 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-48.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
PART N
PART U
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesBAFUN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flash Mountain?

177 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 Flash Mountain hard to play on drums?

55 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?

192 bars, about 4:20 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Flash Mountain?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 96, 117, 118, 125, 126 and 128.

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