God Luck and Good Speed · Weedeater

56 bars, 4:07, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21 and 23, and 5 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 55 BPM
GOD LUCK AND GOOD SPEED · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 8, 10, 16, 19, 22 and 8 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 5 sections: 30 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-48.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIDNS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Luck and Good Speed?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is God Luck and Good Speed hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 God Luck and Good Speed?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 8, 10, 16, 19, 22 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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