III Better Version · Far From Forgiven

234 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 18 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
III BETTER VERSION · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 109, 110, 118, 171, 175 and 11 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 171 · LANDS ON BAR 172

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 24 sections: 147 keep time, 17 are fills, 33 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-194.

PART B
PART D
PART H
PART O
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesZIDAJB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is III Better Version?

165 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 III Better Version hard to play on drums?

60 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 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 III Better Version?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 109, 110, 118, 171, 175 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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