REALIZE · LISA

116 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 29-35 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
REALIZE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 36, 61, 62 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 16 sections: 83 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
PART P
PART H
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
12 groovesFDPHI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is REALIZE?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 REALIZE hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 REALIZE?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 36, 61, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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