Out of Reach · Underzyne

254 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
7:48
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 100-101, 104-105 and 108-109, and 4 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OUT OF REACH · BARS 100-101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 26 and 26 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 22 sections: 153 keep time, 32 are fills, 22 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-132.

PART J
PART E
PART X
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
19 groovesABYEALX+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out of Reach?

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 Out of Reach hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 7:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Out of Reach?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 26 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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