Nothing But A Beatdown · Bulldoze

96 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
NOTHING BUT A BEATDOWN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 30, 34, 62 and 1 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 7 are fills, 29 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-46.

PART C
PART E
PART H
PART S5
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFS9NEC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing But A Beatdown?

131 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 Nothing But A Beatdown hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Nothing But A Beatdown?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 30, 34, 62 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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