Malcolm Todd · Earrings

96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 20 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MALCOLM TODD · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

CHORUS
PART D
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Malcolm Todd?

160 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 Malcolm Todd hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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