K2K9 · Potential Spam

128 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 66-81, 107 and 109, and 2 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
K2K9 · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 26 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-80.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGAIQN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is K2K9?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is K2K9 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 K2K9?

7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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