Prog Band Idea · Jacob Johnson

140 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 123-138 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PROG BAND IDEA · BARS 123-124
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 112 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-46.

PART E
CHORUS
PART AD
PART N
PART AR
PART BD
PART BP
13 groovesRNARBPBD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prog Band Idea?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Prog Band Idea hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 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 Prog Band Idea?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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