Hiding Secrets · Doom

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 13, and 5 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HIDING SECRETS · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 16-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time, 33 are fills and 1 is silent.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hiding Secrets?

80 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 Hiding Secrets hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

44 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hiding Secrets?

4 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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