King For A Day · Battle Beast

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-23 and 25-31, and 9 more places -- 88% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 107 BPM
KING FOR A DAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 42, 66, 74 and 4 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 116-117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars: 107 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-65.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is King For A Day?

107 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 King For A Day hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 King For A Day?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 42, 66, 74 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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