Pro Drums 99% · Too Fast To Die by Archspire

233 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 8:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
8:15
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 153-155, 157-159 and 170-171, and 5 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
PRO DRUMS 99% · BAR 153
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 17 and 18 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 20 sections: 180 keep time and 24 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

PART D
PART R
PART AC
PART AC
PART AT
CHORUS
14 groovesBBRATDAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pro Drums 99%?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pro Drums 99% hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 8:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 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 Pro Drums 99%?

20 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 17 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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