Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 · Atomic Heart

439 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 9:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
439
LENGTH
9:03
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 58 and 61, and 35 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
GEOFFREY DAY - PT-1X12 · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 48, 54, 55, 56, 67, 71 and 51 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

439 bars across 42 sections: 201 keep time, 57 are fills, 79 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-46.

PART B
PART X
CHORUS 5
25 groovesFXBEM+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12?

194 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 Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12 hard to play on drums?

42 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

439 bars, about 9:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Geoffrey Day - PT-1X12?

23 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 48, 54, 55, 56, 67, 71 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 439 BARS ANALYSED
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