Rational Shortcut · Monster Hunter 4 Band

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-54, 59-62 and 88-95, and 8 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
RATIONAL SHORTCUT · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 14, 71, 113, 133, 137 and 3 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 165
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 133 keep time, 9 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-132.

PART B
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesHFBIS11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rational Shortcut?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rational Shortcut hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Rational Shortcut?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 14, 71, 113, 133, 137 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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