RapidSnakesGoingUpMyCave · Anti-Body

129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 43-46 and 105-112, 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 · 160 BPM
RAPIDSNAKESGOINGUPMYCAVE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 19 are fills, 13 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART S5
PART O
PART S7
PART O
PART P
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART E
9 groovesCEOKP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RapidSnakesGoingUpMyCave?

160 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 RapidSnakesGoingUpMyCave hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 RapidSnakesGoingUpMyCave?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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