Harmonious Disruption · 20-70

63 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 28 and 30, and 10 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HARMONIOUS DISRUPTION · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 51 and 52.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 24 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1S6S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harmonious Disruption?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Harmonious Disruption hard to play on drums?

47 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Harmonious Disruption?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 51 and 52.

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