Paegan Love Song · Acid Bath

186 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 42, and 8 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PAEGAN LOVE SONG · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 20 sections: 81 keep time, 48 are fills and 35 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART C
PART O
PART R
PART Z
PART AW
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAVRZAWO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paegan Love Song?

140 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 Paegan Love Song hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Paegan Love Song?

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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