Guardian (Deltarune) · Toby Fox

248 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

248

LENGTH

7:05

DIFFICULTY

74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, silence through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-82, silence through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-100 and snare through bars 101-108, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 61 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-----x---------|

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 102, 104, 106, 108, 234, 236 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.