grayscale dominator · Oxt

71 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 25 and 27, and 5 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
GRAYSCALE DOMINATOR · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 54, 68, 69, 70 and 71.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 68-71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 6 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-50.

PART C
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNJECSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is grayscale dominator?

190 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 grayscale dominator hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in grayscale dominator?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 54, 68, 69, 70 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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