from boss · boberdber

30 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23, 25-27 and 29-30 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FROM BOSS · BARS 25-26
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 4 sections: 13 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAJOFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is from boss?

155 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 from boss hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 from boss?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 30 BARS ANALYSED
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