Great Deceiver · King Crimson

148 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 119 BPM, 4:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 105 and 110, and 9 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 119 BPM
GREAT DECEIVER · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 38 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 17 sections: 53 keep time, 44 are fills, 27 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-96.

PART A
PART K
PART P
PART A
PART S10
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVAPKS10+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Deceiver?

119 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Great Deceiver hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Great Deceiver?

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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