Locust · Machine Head

221 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-64, 89-95 and 185-191, and 1 more place -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LOCUST · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 34 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 21 sections: 127 keep time, 40 are fills, 22 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-158.

PART C
PART AD
PART AJ
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesUIAJADC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Locust?

120 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 Locust hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Locust?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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