Greed · TvL

177 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-17, and 20 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
GREED · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 28 and 29 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 17 sections: 108 keep time, 35 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-152.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBGOMR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Greed?

200 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?

63 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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