meta3rek · nothing

129 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7, and 7 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
META3REK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 32.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-69.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AB
PART S11
PART J
10 groovesFAJABM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is meta3rek?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 meta3rek hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 meta3rek?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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