Megan (AI) · smoking popes

113 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 19-25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
MEGAN (AI) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 40, 60, 68, 79, 80 and 1 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBHS1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Megan (AI)?

158 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 Megan (AI) hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Megan (AI)?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 40, 60, 68, 79, 80 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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