Industrial Disease · Dire Straits

13 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
6/100
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 2 sections: 8 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Industrial Disease?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Industrial Disease hard to play on drums?

6 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 2 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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