Never Fight a Man with a Perm · Idles

144 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-62 and 113-128 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
NEVER FIGHT A MAN WITH A PERM · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 18 sections: 120 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-35.

PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesLHKTW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Fight a Man with a Perm?

155 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 Never Fight a Man with a Perm hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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