IDK · Bury The Witness

139 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 60 and 64, and 11 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
IDK · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 25, 26, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-123.

PART I
PART N
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLNSVI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is IDK?

200 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 IDK hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in IDK?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 25, 26, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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