Meddler · Abr

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 33-39 and 134-135, and 1 more place -- 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 · 180 BPM
MEDDLER · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 65 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 17 sections: 60 keep time, 71 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-151.

PART A
PART G
PART L
PART I
PART P
PART V
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AT
PART AV
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesADIAKVAT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meddler?

180 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 Meddler hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Meddler?

22 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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