Mad Qualia · Hyde

169 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
MAD QUALIA · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 29 and 34 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 18 sections: 87 keep time, 40 are fills, 17 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNAFIFBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mad Qualia?

195 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 Mad Qualia hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mad Qualia?

23 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 23, 24, 29 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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