Numbers on the Board · Missing Link

113 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 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
113
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 30-36 and 46-52, and 1 more place -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
NUMBERS ON THE BOARD · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 37, 53, 69 and 5 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 11 are fills, 44 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBKDFE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Numbers on the Board?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Numbers on the Board hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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.

How many fills are in Numbers on the Board?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 37, 53, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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