Futuring The Past · Anco

66 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FUTURING THE PAST · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 1 is a fill, 6 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART S4
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesFCGS4S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Futuring The Past?

160 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 Futuring The Past hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Futuring The Past?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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