Propaganda · Sepultura

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 45-47 and 65-67, and 13 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
PROPAGANDA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 27 are fills, 25 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART D
PART F
PART L
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesIFLTD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Propaganda?

102 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 Propaganda hard to play on drums?

55 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Propaganda?

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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