Illusion of Love · Dystopia

121 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 81-88 and 117-119 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ILLUSION OF LOVE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 19 sections: 61 keep time, 20 are fills, 21 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART L
13 groovesHLRAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Illusion of Love?

190 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 Illusion of Love hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:33 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, 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 Illusion of Love?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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