I Slay Dragons in Arizona · Tomorrow Is The Day

122 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 10 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
I SLAY DRAGONS IN ARIZONA · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 16 sections: 68 keep time, 19 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-81.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNBAGADY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Slay Dragons in Arizona?

155 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 I Slay Dragons in Arizona hard to play on drums?

61 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Slay Dragons in Arizona?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 25, 33, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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