Kiss the Ladder · Fleshwater

54 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 20-22 and 24-26, and 1 more place -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
KISS THE LADDER · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 39, 42, 46 and 1 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-11.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesBHCMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kiss the Ladder?

185 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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?

54 bars, about 1:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Kiss the Ladder?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 39, 42, 46 and 1 more.

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