Four to Six · Math The Band

124 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 29 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
FOUR TO SIX · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 9 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 7 sections: 104 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-113.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS4S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Four to Six?

210 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 Four to Six hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Four to Six?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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