Flood III · Boris

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 13-15 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
FLOOD III · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 45.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 47 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-41.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDEFJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flood III?

76 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 Flood III hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flood III?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 6 and 45.

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