rando breakdown · aj d

19 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 0:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:19
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 9 and 15, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
RANDO BREAKDOWN · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars: 9 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-19.

OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is rando breakdown?

240 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 rando breakdown hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 rando breakdown?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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