Jigsaw · Discordance Axis

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5 and 10-13 -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
JIGSAW · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25 and 33.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 33 keep time, 6 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART J
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS8BEIJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jigsaw?

200 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Jigsaw hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jigsaw?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25 and 33.

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