Guillotine · Stray From The Path

48 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23 and 25-31 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GUILLOTINE · BARS 17-18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 3 sections: 24 keep time, 6 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guillotine?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Guillotine hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Guillotine?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 47 and 48.

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