Hedonist · Bad Omens

88 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 31, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
HEDONIST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 15 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesCFUS1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hedonist?

170 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 Hedonist hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hedonist?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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