Kirby Down B · Harrison Gordon

197 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 166-193 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
KIRBY DOWN B · BAR 166
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 81, 133, 137 and 4 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 13 sections: 111 keep time, 10 are fills, 33 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 167-193.

PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesS9CPTH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kirby Down B?

215 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Kirby Down B hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Kirby Down B?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 17, 57, 81, 133, 137 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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