Flush · Planet Ridiculon

172 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 35 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FLUSH · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 and 15 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 85-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 15 sections: 130 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-54.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
PART AI
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBEQOS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flush?

180 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 Flush 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flush?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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