From the Start · Good Kid

100 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31, and 5 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
FROM THE START · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 42, 46, 83 and 5 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time, 11 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGLRCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From the Start?

186 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 the Start 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 From the Start?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 42, 46, 83 and 5 more.

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