Raise the Stakes · Impaled

248 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 82-84, and 6 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 206 BPM
RAISE THE STAKES · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 28, 29 and 68 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 13 sections: 152 keep time, 74 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-22.

PART C
PART K
PART Q
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AV
PART AP
PART O
OUTRO
12 groovesAKZAVQO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raise the Stakes?

206 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 Raise the Stakes hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Raise the Stakes?

23 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 28, 29 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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