Greed · Pennywise

117 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Electronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GREED · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 44, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 9 sections: 93 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-66.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECLAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Greed?

160 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 Greed hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Greed?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 24, 44, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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