IMG 9230 · Autophobia

124 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 21 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 185 BPM
IMG 9230 · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 5 sections: 102 keep time and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-96.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCS4AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is IMG 9230?

185 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 IMG 9230 hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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