Organism WIP · Transilience

228 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 35 and 43, and 12 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ORGANISM WIP · BAR 29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 47 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 22 sections: 132 keep time, 53 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-112.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AD
PART CB
17 groovesIADCCBX+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Organism WIP?

180 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 Organism WIP hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 32 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Organism WIP?

26 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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