It's Just A Game · Alternative Competition 2

112 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 18-32 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
IT'S JUST A GAME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 2 sections: 107 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-112.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's Just A Game?

134 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 It's Just A Game hard to play on drums?

27 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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