Pipeline · Chantays

85 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11-13, and 23 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PIPELINE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 4 sections: 75 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pipeline?

150 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 Pipeline hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 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.

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