Listless · On Broken Wings

117 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-66, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
LISTLESS · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 66, 67, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 20 are fills, 30 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

PART D
PART G
PART L
PART N
PART Q
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesS11QGNL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Listless?

190 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 Listless 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Listless?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 36, 66, 67, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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