Kiss the Ladder (B standard) · Fleshwater

52 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-10 and 19-25, and 1 more place -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
KISS THE LADDER (B STANDARD) · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 26, 46, 51 and 52.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 51-52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 5 sections: 41 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFCMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kiss the Ladder (B standard)?

180 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 Kiss the Ladder (B standard) hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kiss the Ladder (B standard)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 26, 46, 51 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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