geek bar · necrotide

82 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 16-17 and 20-21, and 3 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
GEEK BAR · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 37, 38, 39, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-71.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART L
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNCLZI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is geek bar?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 geek bar hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 geek bar?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 37, 38, 39, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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