Out Of Touch · Death

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26-27 and 30-31, and 5 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
OUT OF TOUCH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 26 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-54.

PART B
PART R
PART AA
CHORUS
PART M
BREAK
8 groovesAHBRAAM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out Of Touch?

120 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 Touch hard to play on drums?

63 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Touch?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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