Foreign · Fleshwater

148 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8 and 14, and 6 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
FOREIGN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 57, 73, 77 and 16 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 20 sections: 65 keep time, 22 are fills, 42 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AC
PART AM
OUTRO
14 groovesERACKAM+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Foreign?

182 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 Foreign hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Foreign?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 57, 73, 77 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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