Ill Be The One · Lunachicks

63 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 25-30 and 42-48, and 2 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ILL BE THE ONE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 41 and 52.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDIAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ill Be The One?

155 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 Ill Be The One hard to play on drums?

64 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Ill Be The One?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 4, 41 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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