Front Toward Enemy · Incendiary

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 11, and 7 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FRONT TOWARD ENEMY · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 28 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 16-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 28 keep time, 34 are fills, 28 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
PART Y
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCEJYAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Front Toward Enemy?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Front Toward Enemy hard to play on drums?

61 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?

99 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Front Toward Enemy?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 28 more.

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