Minotaur · Tiburón

105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 32-33 and 35-36, and 7 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MINOTAUR · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 16 sections: 76 keep time, 15 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-115.

PART B
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPLBIG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minotaur?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Minotaur hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Minotaur?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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