Good Game · Cheating the NASA Space Physical

142 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 110 and 112-124 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
GOOD GAME · BAR 112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 48-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 57-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 16 sections: 59 keep time, 40 are fills, 14 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-38.

PART A
PART Q
PART S5
PART J
PART AN
BREAK 5
PART AT
CHORUS
16 groovesAXAQS5J+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Good Game?

168 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 Good Game hard to play on drums?

59 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?

142 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Good Game?

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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