New Food · Chimera

124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-39 and 63-78 -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NEW FOOD · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 88-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCQJS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Food?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 New Food hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in New Food?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 79, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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