My Boss · Anti Crap

139 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 270 BPM, 2:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 58, 85, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS8S1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Boss?

270 BPM, in 8/4, 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 My Boss hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Boss?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 46, 58, 85, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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