For Whos Advantage · Xentrix

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29, 37, 41 and 36 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 23 sections: 97 keep time, 42 are fills, 11 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-25.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
PART E
OUTRO
11 groovesGXEAAAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Whos Advantage?

100 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 For Whos Advantage hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 For Whos Advantage?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29, 37, 41 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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