One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine · From First To Last

56 bars, 3:04, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17 and 19, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ONE-ARMED BOXER VS THE FLYING GUILLOTINE · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 and 24 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 6 sections: 21 keep time and 30 are fills.

PART D
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJDPXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 One-Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 and 24 more.

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