Rapid Spin · AcId

156 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
RAPID SPIN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 97, 105, 127 and 1 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 7 are fills, 40 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rapid Spin?

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

Is Rapid Spin hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rapid Spin?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 97, 105, 127 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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