gaybandnumbergaybandnumber3 · gaybandnumbergaybandnumber

104 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 5 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
GAYBANDNUMBERGAYBANDNUMBER3 · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 47, 71 and 88.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 4 are fills, 19 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-99.

PART C
PART G
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesOMCQG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is gaybandnumbergaybandnumber3?

165 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 gaybandnumbergaybandnumber3 hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 gaybandnumbergaybandnumber3?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 47, 71 and 88.

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